{"id":197,"date":"2008-03-24T23:18:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T22:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/i-am-a-social-networking-whore\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:15:13","slug":"i-am-a-social-networking-whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/i-am-a-social-networking-whore\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a social networking whore!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where have the last few months gone?<\/p>\n<p>Last time I looked it was Christmas and now it&#8217;s March and we&#8217;re at Easter and all tucking into hollow bunnies and freezing in the snow (Can somebody please tell the guys in charge it&#8217;s supposed to be spring that means flowers and sunshine PLEASE!)<\/p>\n<p>However in saying that looking back I can see exactly where the time has gone. It has been a whirlwind of domesticated shenanigans, friends, school, birthdays, parties, deaf men, (well man &#8211; there was only one of them)  weddings and all other kinds of things that have kept me from my blog, but when at home and I have the time, mainly I blame the internet for the passage of unproductive time whilst sitting at the computer.<\/p>\n<p>The internet and it&#8217;s infinite number of distracting offerings that keep me away from my task in hand in this instance blogging &#8211; but trust me when I say the internet keeps me from all kinds of &#8220;other&#8221; things I should be doing, housework for instance (Sorry James I will sort out the wardrobe situation &#8211; eventually).<\/p>\n<p>It is a sorry excuse I know, if I&#8217;m at the computer and I&#8217;ve had all this other stuff going on I should have ample material to blog about. Then when I&#8217;m here with facebook and myspace and flickr and moblog calling for my attention and with my new found addictions to poker or scramble or scrabulous and *add any other facebook application you can think of here, shouting for me to join in with the fun time just gets away from me. Before I know it, it is midnight and I realise I have to get up for work in the morning and really need to go to bed NOW before I start another round of any of the aforementioned and it will get to 4am and I will still be sitting here.<\/p>\n<p>I realise I sound like and addict&#8230; My name is Steph and it has been 22minutes since I last signed into any of my social network sites, but honestly that is where I seem to spend most of my time right now. It&#8217;s a quick and easy to keep in touch with people I don&#8217;t see often and a convenient way to organise my social calender with those I do.<\/p>\n<p>However I am working to redress the balance, hence me blogging right now. I thought of my poor neglected blog and all the interesting things I could have wrote about and felt a pang of guilt, which, after logging onto my dashboard, was compounded by the 4 comments awaiting moderation, that by WordPress&#8217; records have been waiting since the beginning of February (sorry Tiff &amp; SFG).<\/p>\n<p>So I will blog again soon, I promise, I have the ideas and right now I have the time so I will make more of an effort but right now I have to check my email, then my facebook, Someone might of poked me or something and I&#8217;ll have missed it because I&#8217;ve been here writing this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where have the last few months gone? Last time I looked it was Christmas and now it&#8217;s March and we&#8217;re at Easter and all tucking into hollow bunnies and freezing in the snow (Can somebody please tell the guys in charge it&#8217;s supposed to be spring that means flowers and sunshine PLEASE!) However in saying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/i-am-a-social-networking-whore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am a social networking whore!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-3b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":170,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/in-the-words-of-well-who-ever-wrote-them-before-bjork-made-them-famous\/","url_meta":{"origin":197,"position":0},"title":"In the words of well who ever wrote them before Bjork made them famous..","date":"July 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's oh so quietshh shhIt's oh so stillshh shhYou're all aloneshh shhAnd so peaceful until...Well actually until nothing, I'm home alone. 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