I just spent several hours unsubscribing from a whole bunch of emails, catalogs, newsletters, blogs about blogging…all the stuff that I skim through fast and then hit the delete key. I have three different email accounts to do that to so it took some time. I know, three email accounts? I need to reconsider that also.
Why did I do it? Because I noticed that when I get up in the morning I make my coffee and then go turn on my computer. And I then I spend several hours “skimming” stuff and shoving it into various folders in Outlook. How useful is that? If I’m going to be on the computer I should be doing either stuff that I like such as reading my online friends blogs, talking in forums, bothering my kids. Or there are things I should be doing like working on my blog, writing the declaration I promised to provide to a lawyer several weeks ago (long story) and doing my homework.
All those emails that I don’t read? Not a useful way to spend my time. And I have two Twitter accounts. One for my online friends and another for my “guilty pleasures”. Yes, I like reading the Kardashians’ tweets…it’s like watching a train wreck. I can’t not watch! My bad. I know Twitter created lists but I just don’t want my “Fibrochondriac” Twitter account to be tainted by gossip magazines and other crazy stuff. And that “junk” Twitter account is not like email, pretty darn certain not a soul is going to be saying a darn thing to me personally.
But getting rid of all the junk that was cluttering my inbox because it was wasting my time made me wonder about the reverse. Am I creating junk for other people by linking my blog to my Twitter account and my Facebook account? Check out this post on unlinking your feeds and this post Social Networking 101: Migraine Aura I wonder if it’s annoying to the people I’m friends and family with on Facebook who are fine and healthy and don’t really care about health care reform or fibromyalgia…and whatever else it is I blog about…
Enough wondering. I have homework to do and a declaration to write. The declaration has to do with a lack of intelligence on the part of my youngest daughter’s father. It’s a long and involved nasty story and I don’t really want to get into it. Which is why I’ve been stalling writing the declaration since mid-January. Time to get ‘er done!
