My online profile...

I've been busy. Both in real-life and in the online world. How busy I've been online over the years shows itself in the amazing amount of emails I receive about Friend Requests, New Posts, Great Offers, New Games and more. The thing is - these aren't spam emails, they're newsletters / updates from websites and social networking sites I've subscribed to over the years.

So, I've started a huge clean-up action. I plan to keep lots of online community subscriptions - Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Goodreads, Youtube and Google are the keepers, off the top of my head. Thing is, these are websites / communities I actually use. Some of the ones I no longer use are Hyves, Yahoo, Bebo, MySpace, and several others I can't even remember the names of, just that I un-subscribed from them yesterday.

One inspiration for doing this was Googling my name and coming up with a whole list of hits that weren't about me but someone with my exact same name. Not that strange, that's for sure, and friends/ those who know me will be able to see the difference instantly, however it's pretty strange, still.

So, I figured I'd update my own social networks so I can actually link them all together and create a clear profile of who I am personally, not who someone else is who happens to share my name. (Yowzers, does this mean I'll end up having a link to this blog on my Facebook page at some point then? Not quite sure about that yet as I quite enjoy writing anonymously...)

I'm also doing an overhaul of my Blog list - the very long list of blogs I'd subscribed to at some point over the years yet never actually get around to reading. Of the 250+ blogs on the list, I hope to cut it down to 50-ish blogs. Just 'coz I felt like it, really. There are picture blogs, personal blogs, style blogs, news blogs, book review blogs, Aspie blogs and quite a few religiously-themed blogs.

Mostly, I add blogs to the list because they look interesting and adding them gives me a way to find them again. Doesn't mean I actually end up visiting those blogs again, apart from at a time like this... So - I've sorted through them and decided that some are definitely blogs I want to keep on my list, others are simply not interesting enough to me at this time to keep them around.

... Insert a two-ish hour delay in writing...

OK - I'm down to 68. Not quite the 50 I was hoping for, however it´s definitely an improvement on 250+ !!! Off to bed now as I've got work in the morning and really should have gone to bed about two hours ago instead of weeding through my blog list!