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[beelikej]

Today I finally managed to delete my Facebook account. I felt very lost and uncomfortable there, mainly because I never figured out how to keep up with everyone or check a timeline properly. I could mention the privacy issue* and the annoying habit of FB-buttons popping up everywhere, but to be fair it was mostly my personal lack of control over the lay-out that made me avoid the place. Besides that I had so much trouble following people and I never really connected to anyone, except occasionally with people I already communicate with on other social networks. Even then it felt like more fleeting contact than really talking. One reason I stayed longer than I really wanted was that it's the one place my SIL regularly posts photos of my nephew, so I now have an excuse to visit more in real life;)

I still have plenty of online hang outs, although I am considering cutting down, here's a list of all the places you can find me. (I'm BeeLikeJ everywhere:)


Personal blogs and journals
Livejournal - tadaah, you are here!
My Dutch Blog - daily updates of real life
Photoblog (travel)picspams with English commentary
Tumblr - mostly for lurking and liking:)
Twitter - mainly for keeping an eye on Stephen Fry (and other awesome people;)

Hobby blogs:
Filmblog - moviereviews in Dutch
Library blog - reviews of books and fanfic in English
Pottermore - I'm PhoenixNight165 and am waiting for the Chamber of Secrets to open.
Design blog - my artwork archive (not updated in a while, oops)
YouTube - random personal vids
NicknGreg LJ community - (I'm one of the mods)
NicknGreg YT - CSI Nick/Greg fanvids (I'm the maintainer/mod)
My LJ book community - plan to update soon *looks at bookpile*

Registered user, but barely there:
Hyves - a Dutch social network CLOSED MAY 1, 2012
MySpace CLOSED MAY 1, 2012
Insane journal
Dreamwidth
Ok Cupid - What? For the QUIZZES. [On hiatus APRIL, 2012]
Deviant Art

I also have a sockpuppet LJ and a pornTumblr, but those are for personal use only;)


Pfff, I think that's all of them. Feel free to follow me anywhere. I have the same policy for friending back everywhere: I like to keep my dashboard/friendlist/circle/whatever managable, so I don't just collect people to get a high score. Most importantly: these places are my comfort zones, which means I avoid blogs and journals that make me feel awkward. This includes, but is not limited to: an overload of cutesy petpictures or 'revealing' photos of celebs I care not enough or too much about and stuff I have personal issues with, such as a couple of mundane human trades that I'm not even mentioning here for fear of losing my calm.
What I'm trying to explain is that my (lack of) response isn't necessarily a reflection of our actual relationship status or my opinion of you *g*

How many digital hang-outs do you have?

*Obviously I don't mind sharing my personal life :-p

P.S. Thank you, sillie82 for the dragon!

Comments

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

I've been to two reunions: one at the closing of my old middleschool (I attended that from age 8 to 12) which was sweet. The second was from highschool and I felt like I was back in school. Not that I had a bad time then, but I was editor of the schoolpaper and the activities committee and at the reunion I hung with the exact same group again instead of talking to everyone like an adult and finding out what they were all doing now. It felt like nothing had changed which was disappointing. In the end I prefer to remember everyone as they were back then;)

Most of my social networks overlap; so the people I communicate with on LJ are also the ones I talk to on Twitter;)

Tumblr is my happy place where I can just sit quietly in the corner and enjoy looking at people. I find it annoying that you can't really respond in private (without reblogging) and I try to only follow people who don't reblog each other. I rarely post or reblog, but mostly scroll and fill up my like-corner:) Whenever I'm bored or down, I go through my collection. For instance I follow an artblog and a couple of fanblogs; the beauty, comedy and pretty are very soothing.

An example of an arty post I liked

All my Tumblr likes :-)

If I ever come across you in my sockpuppet disguise I will introduce myself, but I doubt we hang in the same circles in that identity;)

[bflyw.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really likes that art post!
:-)