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I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.

Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...

Fits and Starts

Just wondered if this rings any bells ... You find yourself — through invitation, word-of-mouth, or accidental stumbling — on some new (to you) Social Wotnot Site. Spurred on by a wave of initial 'greets', you fling some of your well-worn profile sentences into some web forms, chuck in a couple of pictures, and start to engage within that community.

Pretty soon you find yourself immersed in a sea of excitability — forums to explore, APIs to tinker with, features to poke at — and you realise that you've spent a considerable amount of time within it, to the detriment of all the other Social Wotnot Sites you were already a member of.

One thing I've noticed (she said, in passing) is that it's usually at this point — a couple of weeks or so into it — that the words "I'm addicted" usually start appearing :wink:

I dunno about yous, but I'm rubbish at multitasking. True, I can blather on about ranty-things whilst driving, or I can sit and prod things with my mouse while I'm on the phone (which apparently — so I've been told — is (a) obvious and (b) very annoying when I do it), but when it comes to Proper Full On Multitasking™, I'm a bit shit.

What I'm finding though, is that the things that I'm doing in various places, are all segmenting themselves very neatly into boxes — none of them overlapping the other, at least in terms of the time with which they occupy my head.

One minute I'm trying to summon up the enthusiasm to write back to "ur hot" emails, the next I'm trawling through snapshots on the ever-vigilant hunt for pixel-based pr0n. One minute I'm taking slightly too many self portraits of Kisa, the next I'm pointing my mobile at wine glasses. One minute I'm sending continuous "is a bit hungover" text messages, the next I'm looking jealously/whimsically/lustfully through A Hell Of A Lot Of Photographs™.

Which is no big deal, I suppose, because I guess we all do that — it's just that I'm finding that each one of those things exists to the detriment of the others in some way. If I'm doing A, it's because I'm a bit bored with B and C. If I'm doing D, it's because something happened in E anf F that narked me a little, so I'm leaving them be for a bit.

Maybe there's no real point to this — aside from a general observation that one day I can feel like a blogger, the next a photographer, the next a flirt, the next an adventurer ... and that even though I try to mush everything I do into One Big Pile™, sometimes my head's just in seperate little boxes.

Tell you what though, if I ever¹ come out with the words "I'm a [insert new social software site here] addict", shoot me OK? :wink:

¹ 'ever again' — I know, I've done it at least once before

So you will not be appearing on myspace real soon then :wink:

Peetr

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Ooooooh. Nice spam. I think I won't click on that link. :wink:

Rachel

Ha! Spambots ... I hate them, but they're not match for me and my Super Lightning Fast Ninja vi Reaction Skillz™ (Where "Lightning Fast" = "six hours")

@Peetr — I think "Me on Myspace" would be the single most disastrous thing I could ever do. I'm already obsessed enough with counting profile hits on a million and one Web 2.0 things, and since Becky pointed me towards Google Analytics my mornings tend to be filled with things like "No! Little dots! Go higher!", so to start a process of self-validation based on how many 'friends' I have would turn me into a nervous wreck :wink: