What kind of online presence do I want to have?

[darkemeralds]

I've been in a bit of a blog-crisis for the last several months. Is this happening for others?

I'm getting my fandom fix mostly from Tumblr and Twitter; most of my clothes-and-style stuff ends up on Pinterest; and my little everyday illustrated posts start on my phone and end up automagically on Google+.

What's more, it's incredibly easy to share links on those platforms. They're more mobile-friendly. They're more there when I'm out and about.

As a consequence, some of the emotional needs I've fulfilled for years here on LJ/DW are being spread out over several platforms.

But! But...

But I just don't feel a sense of community in those places. Tumblr is a read-only experience for me (and when I say "read only" I mean "look at the pretty pictures of Tyler Hoechlin," mostly) where the local population seems to have an average age of about 18. I'm frankly terrified to post. It's insane.

Google Plus is gorgeous. It has every level of privacy control you could want. It has Hangouts. It has Ripples. It has all the power of Google behind it. But so far, I haven't managed to make it feel like a community. And I can't find that it's fannish at all. (If you know differently, tell me.)

So I'm neither here nor there, and it's causing me to have no consistent online presence at all.

All of which is a long way of saying that I'm still around, and sorry for not being around here more, and a bit bewildered.

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[darkemeralds]

Hi here!

You know, I must confess: I went to my yahoo mail account one day not very long ago and found about a zillion messages flying--or rather, that had flown long before--between you and the gang, about a get-together. I...deleted them out of guilt. Ack! Sorry! I've since begun using that account more regularly.

In short, yes! Let's have dinner again. I've got no great plans over the holiday season. Maybe we could go scarf down on some barbecue one evening after work between now and New Years?

RE: Google +. I'm kind of a Google fangirl. Unapologetically, really (though I don't proselytize--I recognize that it's problematic). Mainly, I'm the laziest person in creation, and whoever makes it easiest for me gets my eyeballs. There may be a price to pay for that someday but hey, in the long run we're all dead, right?

[dine]

if there's a better addy, just let me know and I'll update my address book (which means you'll at least get my e-mails and all the reply alls!

I'd love to meet you - I'm in town and working until the 22nd or 23rd, then back from the folks' probably around the 27th, at which point I'm off work until the 2nd. So, my availability for a meet up for dinner most of those evenings is fairly high, and I'd probably be free for lunch (or something) the 29th & 30th if that works better for you

I'm good with lazy - lazy works for me *g*