Redirecting My Energies

[jesse_the_k]

I've spent the past couple weeks playing around on Twitter. It's short enough (max message length is 140 characters) that it slides under my writers' block. However, it updates continuously, and therefore grabs my attention many, many times a day. Conclusion: abandon Twitter. (already done.)

My subscription list has approximately 220 people and 40 communities. That would be why it takes four or five hours to read through my mobile-optimized Dreamwidthroll. The connections I've made and the kindnesses you've offered are wonderful, but it requires so much energy that I don't have time to center myself.

So I'm going to slice my sub list way, way back. If yours is among them, please don't take it personally. It's really about my person and what she is and isn't capable of.

Comments

[phi]

No worries! Whatever you need to do.

[djkittycat]

I have enjoyed interacting with you on twitter. You do what you have to do for you. <3

[heyfoureyes]

thanks for the note! i will soon write an update about similar choices that i made. the 'net is a lovely and dangerous plaything. :D

[torachan]

I know how you feel. I cut down my flist a while back when I started this new job, but I feel like I need to trim even more, because it sucks up such a huge amount of time just reading. >_<

(And yet I also want to make new friends, so I'm constantly being tempted to friend even more people... *cries*)

[heyfoureyes]

thanks for the note! i will soon write an update about similar choices that i made. the 'net is a lovely and dangerous plaything. :D

[cathexys]

thanks for letting us know why. it tends to feel personal when it isn't, and it's good to know :)

feel better!!!

[kake]

Sounds like a sensible thing to do. I did a similar thing on Twitter when I recently started using it again — cut my subscription list back a lot. (I'm vaguely aiming to follow fewer than 100 people.) It's made things much more manageable.

[redbird]

Entirely reasonable. I just want to note that I don't usually remove someone's access because I think they aren't reading my journal, or because they say they don't have energy to read as much as they'd like. (If I felt as though I no longer had any connection with the person, on- or offline, I might.)

[onceamy]

No problem! Look after yourself :)

[meloukhia]

'tis the season for journal weeding, it seems. ♥

[anatsuno]

♥ I need to do a trim too, and be realistic, but I'm still procrastinating on it.

[jeshyr]

NB: My twitter account is abandoned too.

I'm glad you're looking after yourself :) *hugs*