bitful

I wish I could write a post on how to manage multiple online identities.

The truth is, I thought I knew how, but I don't any more.

All I have done so far is maintain two identities, one as bitful and one as my firstnamelastname. Two Flickr accounts, two email addresses, two websites (firstnamemylastname.com currently being just a placeholder and storage space).

Some friends know both, some only my firstnamelastname identity, and some (online) friends only bitful.

I'd love to post my holiday pictures on my bitful Flickr account, but I'm in them so I'd rather not to.

And I'd like to share my bitful Flickr pictures with some friends, but I don't necessarily want them to read bitful.com. Although there's nothing in it that I'd want to hide, it still is my private space, and I'm happier to grant access to whoever I want to.

So I post a few pictures here and a few there. I bookmark and comment and post something here and something there. If you know my first and last name, you can easily find them all.

Now, all of this was going very smoothly up until I was an early adopter, and I was only sharing the breadcrumbs I scatter around the web with like-minded pioneers.

These days however, the world and its mother Twitter, Flickr and del.iciou.us away happily like there's no tomorrow, and as I add them as contacts (to my firstnamelastname identity), I find myself I have to duplicate feeds, logons, updates… and the day still has only 24 hours (during five of which I unfortunately seem to need to sleep).

Also, more and more often I would like to share with colleagues some of my online deeds (they are sometimes relevant to my job), but can't do so because, once again, that would mean welcoming them into my private space. Also, I work in a field where Web anonymity can sink your job search

So, what to do? Say bye bye bitful and claim my firstnamelastname part of the web, for one and all to see? Or let friends into my bitful garden?

Either way, I think I will have to accept that the two need to merge sooner or later. Whatever next, a picture of me here soon?

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