A thought provoking post, Mike.

I hoped to split my ‘dual identities’ between Facebook and Twitter, but it just didn’t work out. Suffering as people like me do, from social media overload (Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, etc etc) I never could decide how to split it. Is that photo public, friends, or family only, or a combination? Should that tweet actually be on Facebook, or both?

It’s a tough call, and photos aside, I just decided that I’ll use Twitter for most things, only popping a few things on Facebook when I remember via some FB app or other. I think I’d rather people know the Tom who goes to the pub as well as the Tom who works in archaeology. Chances are if we meet at a conference people will see both anyway after a few pints.

I say ‘I think’, as there are times I do think of something I’d like to tweet, but don’t (it’s a bit pesonal, or deeply random), I could put on Facebook, but can’t be arsed to log in (when I’ve a Twitter client open most of the time). I think that’s why I’ve been on Twitter as long as you, but have only tweeted a quarter of your total.

I have the ‘like it or lump (unfollow) it” attitude. I’ll tweet about dinner, cider, archaeology and web technologies, because it’s all me. As a result, perhaps I’m a bit (lot) more cautious in what I tweet, and maybe come across a bit dull.

That all said, I remain tempted to have a personal account and tweet with abandon, but I just know I’d mess it up and choose the wrong account in a scrumpy-induced haze.

I do split my personal blog tom.goskar.com from my ‘professional’ one http://www.pastthinking.com and funnily enough the traffic to both has declined.

I’ll stop now because I’ve used too many brackets.