Dissolution

[darkemeralds]

Is anyone else trying to re-figure out how to have an online life? Is anyone else feeling that Google+ is cool but how many more social networks do I need? Does anyone else wonder if there's still a place for a journaling site like Dreamwidth and LiveJournal in their life?

I'm finding G+ very homey--more succinct than here, not quite as flighty as Twitter. Less conversational than here, but more interactive than Tumblr. It feels like a comfortable stream of connection.

Of course, it's new. Not many people are on it yet. Everyone's behaving like early guests at a nice party, so it's also much less contentious than here tends to be sometimes. (I have invites, by the way, if anyone wants one.)

Journaling/blogging has been a mostly wonderful experience for me for the past six years or so, but I feel it slipping away as a concept. I hate to let it go, but fighting the flow seems futile. Does anyone else feel that way?

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[darkemeralds]

If you have an email address you don't mind my knowing, PM me with it and I'll get a G+ invite out to you.

My loathing for Facebook is primarily aesthetic. It just struck me as ugly and cluttered and filled with nonsense (and old high school friends whom, for valid reasons, I haven't seen in 30 years) and kind of sleazy.

I'm with you on Tumblr. I asked my 20 year old niece to explain it to me. She couldn't--and she's a writer. She gave me kind of a vague, "You know, it's a thing..." reply.

I have a fannish and a RL Twitter too, for the same reasons. My fannish one (Darkemeralds) is a steady stream of celebrity self-aggrandizement and amusement. My RL one is for my employer.