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Scottish Roundup » Blog Archive » Blog Life After John Smeaton — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:35:33 +0000

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By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:15:57 +0000

Although Lyle, when I got contacted via your work name for the work I’m currently involved in, I had no idea who you were.

I do now though.

By: anxious

anxious — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:01:30 +0000

Oh, and I’m only “Facebook” friends with people I’ve actually met, or know quite well in a blogging/chatting/emailing way…

By: anxious

anxious — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:00:09 +0000

I’ve found it a bit weird on Facebook, because I’m there under my real name, but have friends straddling the blogland/real life divide (for me, there is a divide).

Blogfriends have put that they know me “through blogging” which makes me a little uncomfortable, because most of my real life friends don’t know about the blog. I don’t directly link to it from my Facebook profile.

It is rather annoying in a number of ways – like someone said, why do we have to pick our relationship from a list? And the “not writing on your own wall” etiquette is hard to get used to if you’re a blogger!

But personally, I am finding that I’m getting in touch with people I haven’t contacted for ages, so it does have positives.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:29:58 +0000

I’m with Graybo on this – and it’s been the fuel for several dollops of introspection and d4d™ postings – of using Blog nom de plume for one set of things, and real name for business-based gubbins, so that I can keep the two seperate.

I even check on Google occasionally, to make sure that I’m not getting interlinkage between the two IDs. But it does make it very confusing on occasion.

For example, I’d love to do more to promote the photography portfolio site, but I can’t do that on D4D, or on any of the site where I’m registered as Lyle… Pain in the bum at that point, I have to say…