The other day I read a very interesting post from Mark Dykeman's Broadcasting Brain that asked "Is blogging for the introverted soul?" This subject hit very close to home for me, as I am the most introverted and shy person I know. Sometimes I even have problems being around people who I have known since I was in diapers!
This post by Mark has inspired me to publicly explore a bit on why I am involved with social networking and blogging. This is something I have been doing quite a bit of thinking about my introverted soul and how it has interacted with the Plurk vs. Twitter excitement of the past few weeks.
I had plurked and plurked and got the holy grail of the emoticons, I had the 10 invited friends and even greater than 50 Karma and then the algorithm changed and I was supposed to continue plurking like I did at first if I wanted to maintain my status,
which does make sense, but people were even being penalized for sleeping at night, there should be some leeway, shouldn't there? What was I going to do when I went away for vacation to Disney World in September? What about the fact that I don't really want to chat all the time because I have so many other things to keep me occupied not to mention the fact that I am so unbelievably shy and just hate putting myself out there in such an open forum.
So anyhow now a few more days have passed and I was checking out the latest in the Twitterverse and saw that there is another new kid in town, Indenti.ca. 
Odd one, huh? Aside from not having all the birdies and being so blue, it really looks a lot like Twitter. There is one difference, it is new. The page loads a bit slowly, but so far I've not heard anything about crashes or pages not loading at all. Another thing to consider is that everyone is not using it yet. It's still in early adopter phase.
So in a matter of less than two hours, I have gone from avoiding social media because of the Plurk burnout I experienced to signing up for new services and even Twittering and Stumbling like normal.
Now although I am finally finishing up this post that I started almost a week ago, I can say that my outlook has changed in the last couple of hours. It isn't that there is a new shiny out there to play with, because I have gone back to the old familiars that I had been ignoring for the past week or two. It's just that this new shiny has been able to remind me why I like playing with all of these social networking sites. I may be an introvert in real life, but I do like connecting with other people and doing so online is so much easier to get the courage to talk to the popular kids. I just need to remember that no matter how pretty the next new shiny is that comes along, with all things, moderation is the key! 
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