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?

Comments

[runningwater]

Oh, have you hit the nail on the head for me...I was just sitting here thinking there's just toooo damned much and I'm overwhelmed. I have 2 Twitter accts (one for business) and 2 FB ones (again, one for business), as well as G+ (and I'd forgotten all I've read about Google & their collection of all info and using it), LJ and DW. I spend more time catching up than doing. It's getting to me, and I don't know what to do. I have FF friends that are only on either FB or Twitter (and not necessarily both), which are the only reasons I signed up for them. And now G+ is being hailed as the IT for connecting and ...oh, really, I just want to go back to the easy days of the OB, email, and a blog (of which I now have 3. Three. WHY? Because most are on LJ, but I'm loving DW, so I crosspost. Business is on DW, too). I feel like I'm drowning. I have more email addys than I can count, 2 pages of passwords...I hate this.