Hello 
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...
Rezzed.net
One of the most common email-types I get in my .INBOXes — aside from promises to enlarge my penis, notifications from Flickr that "a_random_perv_with_his_knob_out has added you as a friend", and countless IMs asking for "help setting up your inworld Flickr Browser" — is requests from people to join Facebook. Usually from ex (or current) students.
I reject them all — partly because I'm an antisocial cow who doesn't want the hassle of keep up-to-date with the day-to-day lives of five years worth of graduates, partly because I rather like the accolade of being one of the six people left in the world who aren't on Facebook, and partly because my social interactions on the web are usually confined to my two alter egoes and I do very little online as my real self.
So last night, after I got home (very tired) after a day in London (during which I met up for a few pints with James who was incredibly lovely, and who has written a book that you should all buy 
), my instant reaction to Thaumata's suggestion that I stick my profile on Rezzezd.net — "the social network for your second life" — was one of raised-eyebrow skepticism.
I mean, really, do I actually need yet another account with another Social Networking site to add to my list of Internet Things To Check In The Morning While She's Still Sleeping™?
But actually, I rather like it¹ As much as I enjoy doing stuff inworld, it's nice to have spaces on the Regular Internets™ to be able to discuss stuff and to build interpersonal relationships — spaces that have the inherent 'time-shifted' advantage of not having to be online at the same time, conversations and friendships that can develop alongside a more 'face-to-face' engagement in a busy sim, surrounded by sculptie trees.
I like it also because it's a specific Second Life network — considering the recent hoo-haa about Facebook deleting 'non-real' accounts — and the conventions and expectations within the conversations reflect the very specific engagement that resies have with their avatars.
(She said, rather clumsily. What I mean is that there isn't the feeling I get in some other social sites that I have to somehow 'justify' the content, or feel a bit 'second-class' about being within it and not "Real" — if you get me at all. Which you probably don't, but hey, it's early and my brain is still asleep)
Anyways. This is me on it, and this is Thaumiee.
It seems to be something that's got the potential to be Quite Interesting™ — if enough people sign up, and a few features get added. Like the ability to link it to other Web 2.0 things (I'd like to be able to automagically inject everything I tag here as "secondlife", and have my Flickr stream in it, for starters).
And I know there are other things, like SLUniverse and SLProfiles.com — but frankly, they have always struck me as being rather 'messy' and slightly 'backward' 
Anyways. We'll see
In the meantime, after I've had a shower (and spent the majority of today lolling around in bed getting the rest I think I deserve), I need to radically rewrite my profile so that it has interesting and useful information in it.
¹ Ack, all right. I confess. I'm just on the lookout for as many places online where I can write "I'm married to Thaumata Strangelove"
Two and a half 
— and I had a train to catch 
Seems I'm another with the accolade of being one of the six people left in the world who aren't on Facebook. Maybe we should start a Facebook group or something about it.... oh bugger.
Well, I am the third person not on Facebook (or anywhere else until Rezzed.net came along). I wonder who the other three are? Happy to see you signed up Kisa. I agree, it seems to have potential and the people there are starting to form a little community already.
Argh, don't tempt me into another one. I'm on Facebook, but I'm not sure why. I check about once a fortnight, so people stop talking to me. Some social network!
LinkedIn too, but again I don't use it.
I'll see your anti-social and raise it by nearly a decade of more practise you young pretender you! Goes to the pub and still claims to be anti-social, I don't know!
Slightly perversely, I'm not on Facebook under my online aliases, but my 'real' ID is there.
It's just for work purposes — to see whether it's any use to the University in interacting with students (answer: prob not), but I don't actually use it.
I'm not on Facebook, or on MySpace.
I'm thinking about creating my own 'social networking' site, especially aimed at grumpy old curmudgeons, and calling it MyArse™
What do you guys think — has this idea got 'legs'?
I'd sign up
I quite like my Facebook entry. It would act quite well as a centralised profile and would save me the trouble of giving people separate links to my blog, my flickr page, my last.fm page and so on.
The trouble with it is that most of it's not visible to people on Facebook itself never mind the world outside. So I'm still trying to figure out the point of it all. It's not open enough to be really useful.
Extract from a BoingBoing article on Facebook privacy concerns:
...MoveOn.org started a Facebook group and petition protesting Facebook's new feature that makes private purchases on other websites public on Facebook.
It's a bit heavy on the nested tables for my liking.
A few pints? It was two. And I thought you were a proper drinker