I'm finding that the longer I am online and the more social networking and blogging and education and gaming and all other online activities are part of my life, the more fractured I become at a time when it feels like things should all be melding together.
I start a new activity and think "Oh I should start a blog about this..." instead of incorporating it into my current existence. I am wishing for a single place that is just my place, where I can be just me. But then there are times when I want to reveal my identity and times when it would be wiser and better not to. So if all my social networking and email and blogging and photo sites are tied together, well then I'm just all out there for the world to see.
It's a conundrum, one I've dealt with on and off for about 5 years. I find it interesting that it doesn't seem to slowly resolve itself. And what I think one day can easily be completely different a few days later. It's confusing.
How do you all handle this?
When I was 'found' by an old college friend I began to think that all my scattered selves were tied together in multiple databases in the hands of strange corporations. I was not so clever after all. Maybe some parts of myself are only for paper journals or the ear of a friend when it is inches away from mine and I can command loyalty by looking the hearer in the eye.
Posted by: mommalibrarian | 09/26/2010 at 12:58 PM