Cleaning up my online life

Posted: March 23rd, 2008 | Author: edward | Filed under: out of doughnuts ramblings | 5 Comments »

Twitter account: deleted

Friendfeed: removed all services, for now I’ll just ignore friend requests since I’m not publishing anything.

Flickr: all photos are friends only, removed some contacts.

Facebook: profile is still there, but made use of their new privacy settings (unchecked everything) and heavy use of the limited profile. Facebook only serves as a rolodex for me, and I don’t use it otherwise.

This blog: I guess it’ll stay for now, I haven’t made up my mind if it should survive.

Google Reader: Removing ~30 feeds, will try to regularly remove feeds that I’m not reading.

Why?: I’m not really sure, but let’s see if it cuts down on time wasted online. I don’t imagine that you (my friends) will care since I rarely use any service except Flickr, and all of you have access to those photos.

5 Comments on “Cleaning up my online life”

  1. 1 Andy Baio said at 8:17 pm on March 24th, 2008:

    You have more willpower than I do.

  2. 2 Stewart Butterfield said at 11:56 pm on April 1st, 2008:

    You’re my hero. God bless.

    (Should drop the Flickr widget from the blog template too since it is all broke now.)

  3. 3 rabble said at 7:36 am on April 10th, 2008:

    So is this perhaps the dreaded google silence setting in? You join and then all of your blogging and identity production for the outside world ends?

  4. 4 peterborough cleaning said at 2:00 pm on June 8th, 2008:

    Well at least you are keeping the blog for now!!
    Lucy xx

  5. 5 stephentrepreneur said at 1:18 am on September 4th, 2008:

    Whilst the addiction is strong, I totally agree. Cutting the ties to soooo many sites is the first step in regaining life within the REAL world. I too will be taking this track. Soon.

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