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    • Disability
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    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
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    • Feminism
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      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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social media & me
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social media & me

written by Jana July 21, 2011

I’m game to try nearly any new form of social media.  I’m Instagramming, Flickr-ing, Google+ing, Gowalla-ing and Color-ing, in addition to the ‘traditional’ forms of Twitter, GoogleReader, Facebook and WordPress.  A few things I’ve tried and rejected–I didn’t care much for Tumblr, for example.  Or Foursquare.  And I rarely consult Goodreads or LinkedIn, although I maintain active accounts in both spaces.  My favorite spots tend to morph over time, too.  At first I rarely Facebooked, but now it’s my primary go-to space because most of my close friends are such avid users and I want to keep abreast of their lives.  Same for Twitter.  But there are some people who are important to me who don’t use social media very often (or not at all). To keep in touch with them I use Gmail, IM, Skype, and/or texting.  But it’s a lot to keep track of these various ways of communicating.  And, with differing levels of privacy, I find that I ‘behave’ differently in the various spaces depending on how open they are.

Though for several months my favorite platform has been Twitter, I find that I rarely ‘follow’ the Twitter feed anymore.  It’s sort of gone the way of my RSS blogfeeds–something to dip into only if I have some time to kill, and I’m never caught up.  Recently I also removed a lots feeds and ‘follows’ from my lists because either I found them uninteresting or I simply never got around to reading their content.  In addition to paring down my lists, I’m also finding myself far more reticent to share as frequently anymore–it’s wearying to have the world know so much about me, and I don’t want to do things simply for the sake of tweeting that I’ve done them.

5 fav LDS women's booksAnd, more than that, I’ve found that one of the primary losses from my life with all of the social media whirling around me, is that I’ve lost time for books (and for poetry).  So earlier today when I was walking the library stacks to retrieve some research-related tomes, I discovered some other interesting-looking books nearby.  Books that I wanted to make sure to add to my nightstand.  So I grabbed those, too.  Sure, I have too much going on right now to be reading a lot.  But at the same time, I don’t want to be the kind of person who isn’t always reading something.  And I never want to be that person who can’t pull themselves away from their smartphone long enough to read a chapter (or two!) of a good novel each day.

What about you, what are your favorite social media sites?  And how do you work to keep your “in real life” experiences in balance with your online ones?

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Sharon M. Leon July 22, 2011 - 6:13 pm

I’m right with you on this. When I passed my exams in graduate school, I promised myself that I’d never let myself go without some sort of pleasure reading. It’s worth it, in the restoration that only literature can bring.

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janaremy July 24, 2011 - 12:27 pm

Absolutely! If I find myself feeling grumpy, I can usually trace it to not having some good reading material at hand. :) And while I enjoy a good history book, doing my dissertation reading is a different kind of pleasure from reading a novel or a poem (so I need the latter to give balance to my geeky historian-life).

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alisonwonderland July 22, 2011 - 10:34 pm

Facebook and GoodReads are the social media sites I use mostly frequently. But it’s imperative to me that I read books, especially novels, on a regular basis – so sometimes I just have to turn off the computer and do that!

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janaremy July 24, 2011 - 12:27 pm

And I love that about you Alison–your book lists are always delightful!

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EBrown July 23, 2011 - 12:31 pm

I’m a Twitter and Instagram girl. I only use FB because my tech-challenged friends and family use it. Its popularity is inexplicable to me. FB seems like having to do high school over again, only this time the school has millions of people and less “depth.” I have accounts on Goodreads, WordPress, Google+, Quora, FriendFeed, Linkedin, Blogger, Flickr, and Foursquare, with the last three being used regularly. I follow people I know or find interesting so my feeds aren’t overwhelming.

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janaremy July 24, 2011 - 12:24 pm

I like instagram, but I have a stone-age iPhone so it’s really hard to use (less than half the time am I able to post photos because they app just shuts down in frustration at my old OS). Hopefully I can remedy that when my AT&T contract expires in September.

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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