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. 

Since I figured out how to cross-post from DW to LJ, I'm sort of attempting to move all of my life to DreadWidth (more for philosophical reasons- the fact that they gave PayPal the boot rather than compromise their agreement with users about content is incredibly good press to me), but I'm kind of faced with the sheer volume of stuff that I have on LJ that I like being able to access easily and can only really do so by means of my Friends list there. It's not a whole lot of fun, really.

So I think I'm going to start moving more of my feeds from LJ to DW, at least for the communities and personal lj's that are public and who don't have me within a slightly more privileged filter, but it's going to take some time to get all that put together correctly. Ah, well. 

In any case, Kitewithfish at Dreamwidth is likely going to include far less filtering about my life and interests than LJ- but I think that I will probably continue my now longstanding tradition of keeping my mother as much in the dark about fandom as possible.