I’m no hoarder. At least not in the reality tv show sense. But digitally? Oh boy. I’ve got some fessing up to do.
I’m that person sucking all of the bandwidth because I have 59 tabs open in my web browser. And my Google Reader? Overflowing with subscriptions I can’t possibly keep up with. The number of unread posts seriously startles me sometimes, a glaring reminder of all of the information I’m “missing out” on.
Don’t get me started on unused social media profiles. I *gulp* had an identica account I had a hard time deleting because I adopted so early I had “sara” as my username. In the wide world of the interwebs, it’s no small feat to be the first “sara” to something new on the web.
But what’s the point? I didn’t even realize exactly how much all of this digital baggage was weighing me down. Until I got one too many spam notifications from a silly old profile I was keeping on a Ning community.
The moment I finally pressed that delete button was sweet indeed. I was an air balloon struggling to get off the ground, just needing to drop another sand bag. Thud.
And so, I unsubscribed to a few of the blogs that have been in my Google Reader feed since Summize existed (Yes, I even had defunct Summize feeds in my subscriptions – how shameful!). Thud. Thud. And the identica account featured above – don’t bother looking for it. It’s gone too. That screenshot above is the last evidence of existence.
I have more sandbags to toss and I can’t say I’ve taken full control of my browser tab hoarding, but this thing finally feels light enough to fly. Here we go… up, up and away.