On Keeping My Internet and Personal Life Separate

On Keeping my Internet and Personal Life Separate.

Yeah, it’s another personal post. I apologize if you don’t like my rambling on stuff like this, but this has been on my mind all weekend. I keep my personal life and my internet life separate. Why? I really have no idea, it’s a bit of a subconscious thing I guess. From an early age, like most kids, I was taught that all the people on the internet were bad. Obviously that isn’t the case. But for some reason, I still follow that sometimes. I have social network accounts, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. However, I only use the Twitter and Tumblr for my internet life. I don’t really know what is is. I deliberately make it a point to tell people know that I review books, but I have a problem with letting the two sides merge. I think it’s because I don’t think the people I know in real life would really consider people I know online to be actual friends. I do consider many people that I know online to be my friends, despite not knowing how they consider me, (probably acquaintances, or in the words of Arnold J. Rimmer, “I’ve come to regard you as, people I’ve met.”)

I can’t explain fully why I have a subconscious need to keep them separate to a point. I want to be known as the guy who reviews books on the internet, but my brain won’t let me do that. I have told my friends about them, but that’s it. I assume it’s also because I don’t want to push the videos, which I guess, I am probably still embarrassed by. By no means am I saying that they’re bad. In fact, I notice that I am getting progressively better with each review. Which I hope will mean that by next year I will be able to make my videos look and sound as good as Atop the Fourth Wall or Spoony Experiment. But with my friends, I figure that I don’t want them to see them, because it’s something I do for fun, and it’s fine for strangers to see, they don’t know me, but someone I face on a daily basis, I’m just not sure I am ready for that yet.

I know this was a short one, but I had to get this out of my head and onto the page. Next week, I’ll spout some more thoughts at you all. I’m Michael and those were my random thoughts.