RSS Feeds: I'm Being Reclusive, Not Antisocial
Although I'll never get as bad as Howard Hughes, I have to emulate his lifestyle to a very small degree. I don't have the money he had and I'm not a hypochondriac like he was, but I'm probably just as crazy as he was.
Saying Goodbye to Twitter, Plurk and FriendFeed
Although I really like the social aspects of these 3 services, they're incredible time sinks. Even when I was just viewing tweets, plurks and shared items, I noticed hours of my time disappearing on a daily basis. I've already said my goodbyes on Plurk and Twitter and I suppose, through sharing Tweets, on FriendFeed as well. I even went so far as to remove my Twitterfeed.
I've already removed the "follow" and "join" links in my sidebar widget. I'm not destroying the associated accounts, though, because I want to make sure I've subscribed to the RSS feeds by email for those I'm "following" who have the option available.
Withdrawing from social-oriented services like this merely means I'm being more reclusive than before, but not completely antisocial. I'll still be doing the other things I normally do, such as answering email, replying to comments and commenting on other blogs.
Projects on Top of Projects
I don't like being reclusive, but it's extremely necessary for me to be that way until I get the brunt of my projects completed. The projects include, in no particular order:
- The combination and separation of my various blogs and blog topics. I'm not even at the halfway point of being completed with the first 2 stages.
- Working on the Do Follow, CommentLuv and KeywordLuv Blog List (removed later). Verifying statuses of blogs on other people's lists (as well as my own) is a time-consuming process, even if I don't take the time to comment on those blogs.
- A project I haven't mentioned yet and may mention later today. But then again, maybe not. I still have to think about it a bit more to decide if it's a project worth undertaking.
- Finishing up on the articles I have backlogged and in various stages of completion. I figure I have at least 2 weeks worth. Some are still in my head, but the majority are saved as drafts.
You get the picture. Some people will say I'm being antisocial. Well, if that's the appropriate word, then so be it. I simply have too much to do to waste (and I use that word lightly) time on being a social butterfly.
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I'm with you on this one. There are just way too many and I just don't have the time either. Have a great day RT. :)
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im getting sick and tired of all of these social networking twitter type sites. I'm growing suspicious of them. I don't want the search engines or my browsers to know my next move. It's actually kind creepy.
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I've started wondering about them myself. They're not monetized — how can they afford to keep doing what they're doing?
I never started with these sites to begin with.
I could never understand this Twitter nonsense – what does it do better than a blog?
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Nothing, really.
I did likewise with MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog etc.. I've made some great friends trough them but I've also spent days not getting work done.
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I dropped socializing on BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog a long time ago.
Some people just like doing things by themselves. I recently took a trip to Vegas by myself, and some people thought that was really weird. But I like being able to be on my own schedule rather than worry about someone else. To each their own.
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Being reclusive has some advantages. Like having more time to get necessary things done.
I hear that.
My personal online crack is stumbleupon and Twitter.
I have kicked the Twitter habit, but I still need my stumbleupon fix.
I went ahead and stumbled this page by the way
:mrgreen:
Nice try.
Its funny how time can go by on social networking sites. I still need to be better at leaving them alone.
I ditched Twitter last week. Too much noise without much point.
There's nothing wrong with being reclusive, RT.
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You're right. Some would call it being antisocial, but I think there's a time for being social and a time to avoid it.
These social 2.0 sites have really gone overboard. Seriously, following someone online?
Facebook is enough of a time waster as it is.
It was fun when I started, but I got really tired of the notes about every little thing the person was doing.