anagramofbrat | Experiment

So it's been pointed out to me by Actual People that I'm way too "jacked in," so to speak. Normally I'd be all no I'm not fuck you, but this is something I've kinda realized myself ages ago but just didn't have the capacity to address until recently. But it is something of an issue - I use the internet for distraction and escape, which is okay in small doses, not when you have tabs up for every social network on two minute automatic refresh and get sort of panicky when nothing updates at a faster rate than every fifteen minutes or so. Also when you're someone who is a bit compulsive about not having any unread mail in her inbox, Twitter was starting to stress me the hell out.

Yesterday I killed the plugins from my browser and told myself I'd catch up towards the end of the day via my ipod (I like reading it on Twitteriffic better anyway - I'm less likely to miss messages), and lo and behold, I seemed to have a much less distracted day. So I think we'll be continuing with that - seems to be a good thing that my brain has space to breathe rather than being constantly attacked by information. I'm already mostly off Facebook - I burnt out on it a while back and I read the status updates in the morning, but mostly don't bother posting anymore. Which leaves LJ my love, which I'm just checking every so often instead of leaving the tab open. Which is fine really,

badrahessa noted yesterday that while the frequency of posts has gone down in the wake of facebook and twitter, their quality has gone up - people don't post here unless they really have something to say (and it won't fit in 140 characters). I, like her, am okay with this. I may strip out some of the noisier comms I belong to just to reduce static on my flist.

I'm not going anywhere. Just reading less often, and maybe paying attention to Real Life more for a change, cause for once Real Life ain't making me horribly miserable.

Speaking of LJ and other related things, I do have a dreamwidth account (same name) that I don't use, but it's there. Please add it to your circle if you're switching/defecting/cross-posting?

In other news, another day of fighting with my brain and my body, wheee. You know it's gonna be a tough day when you start with a double dose of coffee, two ibuprofens (cause on top of everything else it be ladytiems as of this morning) and half an ativan. That said, ain't no reason it still can't be a good day, right?