Split personality
When I first signed up for Twitter, my preferred name was already taken, the same as my blog name, revelationspace. It belonged to some guy who was obviously an Alastair Reynolds fan too, but didn’t use Twitter as evident by the 3 Tweets since last August. Well I managed to track him down on Facebook (lucky for me he was part of the same AR fangroup and uses the same avatar on FB and Twitter!) so I asked him if he would mind me having it and luckily for me he was a decent chap and let me have it. So, lo and behold my new Twitter account.
So why a new account and not a rename? Well I guess I like to have a second personality. That’s not to say I don’t like who I am, or am ashamed of anything I am, far from it. But I often feel like the geek side of me yearns for other geeks, and I don’t really know any in real life. None that I have regular contact with anyway. So I just felt like ‘splitting’ my online life a bit, following and talking with like-minded internet folk on a separate account. Although real life family and friends are welcome to follow my new account it’s not for them that I’d be posting things. It’s for Me and people with similar interests. I may switch between the two accounts on more personal things or post on both I’m not sure yet.
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