The internet is a pretty vast place as anyone who uses it on even rare occasions could attest to without any second-guessing. Now I’m the type of person who spends slightly more time than normal on the web, between social networks like twitter and tumblr and all the different blogs I read, I practically live on the damn thing. I even work from home; my only means of communicating with my colleagues being via email and instant messaging, with all my work being done over a phone helping customers out using a VPN that connects me to the work server.
Now I’m not trying to say that being on the internet as often as I am is necessarily a bad thing, far from it, in fact I absolutely love how easy it is to stay connected to everything going on the world near instantaneously. What I am trying to say, though, is that when you dig around on the internet enough you start to accumulate logins, passwords, usernames and emails so on and so forth. Much like real life (those still exist right?) things can start to get cluttered and messy. Just as you turn on your handy little roomba to scourge your floors looking for debris to clean up, you should also go through and do the same on the internet ever so often. I’ve made the mistake in the past of creating too many email addresses for different websites only to forget about them later because I had no need to use that website anymore. So now I’ve got emails linked to my name that pull up websites I don’t want to be associated with (and no I don’t mean porn) but just stupid places which I can’t unsubscribe from anymore due to inactive emails or forgotten passwords.
It’s okay and possibly even smart to have two, maybe even three, emails to use for personal and work related purposes. Things you need to watch out for though are signing up for emails/websites you don’t need or won’t use more than once. Keep your personal email setup specifically for your social networks and keep business for purely that. Keep tabs on all your logins and the passwords associated with them also making sure to update those passwords once in awhile to keep them fresh in your memory. If you’re able to, delete any inactive emails or accounts for other sites, keep your profile close to who you are now and not who you were five years ago.
Anyway, I’ve just been rambling here about nothing in particular. Mostly just working on my writing ability, specifically writing about something I’m quite fond of…may recap this post later with bullet points.
