Social Networking

A lot of my friends on Instagram are also my friends on Facebook. They, like myself, tend to cross-post photos from Instagram onto Facebook and Twitter. I noticed a funny effect from that cross-posting - you end up missing a lot of posts from your friends. Mindless scrolling. We all do it. Facebook was made for it as well as Instagram. Your brain is bored so you grab your phone and start scrolling through posts. I think we're sort of zombies when this mode clicks in. I usually end up snapping out of that zombie scrolling mode when I see posts I've already remember seeing. Semi-conciously I feel I've reached the end of any content that I may want to read or view. ...

I've never been one to give a shit about what of "me" is online. I have blog(s), am on Twitter and many other social networking services. Up until now, I've pretty much said my mind and didn't care about the audience. I made a judgment call error a while back on Twitter, and now I'm correcting the issue. The question comes to be, how does one split yourself from your professional life online from your personal life? To be honest, it's fairly difficult if not impossible if you're trying to keep your identity at all the same between the two. For instance, I originally signed up with Twitter to broadcast things to my friends. A friend of mine got interested as well, and we started following each other. Then, I started working for the same employer and soon coworkers found my profile through my friend. I have always tried to keep some level of anonymity but when my real picture was plastered on my twitter profile, it was hard to hide the fact it was me. ...