Tumblr Free Day

[kitewithfish]

Last night I had the bright idea of removing the Tumblr app from the homepage on my phone (not deleting it! Just moving it out of sight) and man, I am glad I did. I keep reflexively looking for it when I have a minute to myself, because Tumblr was good for distractions and new stuff and pretty pretty art, but not for community. 

Whereas anytime I open up a DW window I end up with nine tabs and three replies to write because To Be A Fan On DW is to be a chatty, chatty human being. XD

Does the social media you're using effect who you are on that platform?  I tend to think it does, but I am betting people have other experiences.

I have tried to establish Kitewithfish as Who I Am in fandom with little IRL crossover, so most of my online stuff is as a version of myself slightly detached from people who might google my name. Who I am online with fannish folks is different than I am with people on, say, Facebook, but it's pretty close to who I am in person. I have mostly kept FB a Fandom Free Zone for me, since god, that site gives me the Heebies AND the Jeebies, but I happily chat about fanfic with people who know me in life, tho I am coy about usernames. 

Comments

[multiplelizards]

Platform definitely has an effect on how people act. I have little to no presence on FB and twitter while my Tumblr presence is active, but in a passive kind of way (I have meaningful interaction with literally no one).

Being on DW is actually kind of nice! It encourages interaction the kind of which I haven't really been involved in since I was active on FF.net back in the day (I never actually figured out LJ before the purge, lmao).

As to keeping fandom and real life separate; it feels a lot like a one way street. If I'm open about fandom with someone online I'm pretty open about RL stuff, but I absolutely don't mention fandom stuff around people IRL unless they let something slip. I was teased about fandom stuff pretty harshly in middle school so I literally never bring it up unless someone else does first.

[kitewithfish]

If I'm open about fandom with someone online I'm pretty open about RL stuff, but I absolutely don't mention fandom stuff around people IRL unless they let something slip. I was teased about fandom stuff pretty harshly in middle school so I literally never bring it up unless someone else does first.

Grrr! That ticks me off! I was lucky enough to be in a semi-nerdy group that some of them were tuned into Harry Potter fanfic, so it was only slightly weird. But yeah, I was pretty closedmouthed about it until I recently, when I just decided that, screw it, my social circle can deal with it. Not at work, but I'll get fannish about things with people in my life and it has slowly pulled a few people into the pit with us.

[multiplelizards]

I've got some really great friends now who I'm pretty open about fandom stuff with and it's fantastic. I mean, we do eventually find each other, lmao. I was never a super outspoken person to begin with so it's not like that ever changed a whole lot, I was just more careful about who I brought fandom stuff up with.