Laura Seabrook's Ramblings

How do you know you're addicted to something? Well one way is that when you stop, you can't stop thinking about it.

That's what happened this morning on my walk with Bobby. I mostly thought about whether or not I'd done the right thing by converting my old User Facebook account to a Page for Rainbow Haven.  However I know this will pass. Despite ideas of creating another account, well I do still have other Facebook stuff. In fact, there's:

• Laura Anne Seabrook (Artist)
  My comics and artwork;
• Transgender Day of Remembrance Webcomic Project
  Support page for the project and archive.
• How People see me / What I Really Do
  A group I started for those he/they/I see myself images;
• Elsie Brook
  For my main Second Life character, and backup contact for Facebook stuff;
• Laurel Galli
  For my other main Second Life Character;
• Seconds Webcomic
  Counterpart to the Second Life group I use to make a webcomic. Both Elsie (graphic novel)  and Laurel (webcomic) are admins for this in Second Life and Facebook); and
• Optimum Actor, Marble Baar, and Dummy Quicksand
  All Fictional Character Pages for my other Second Life alts who are part of the Seconds group.

So you can see there's still a substantial Facebook presence. But, each of these is targeted to a particular purpose. Only Elsie and Laurel are user accounts as such, because you need at least one user account to run pages and groups. Mostly, having pages/accounts for my Second Life avatars allows me to use that Page as the link in in-world profiles. I can add pictures and other details that I want, rather than the restricted info in-world. Also of course the Seconds Crew is only me and one other person at the moment, but that might change in the future, and having a Facebook group for it makes sense.

See, Facebook is good at enabling connections. The problems I had though with the old account however was the heavy noise to signal ratio, and the noise part was what was addictive! Hopefully this new arrangement will cut that to bearable (and non-addictive) levels. Elsie doesn't post much directly, and there are only a few friends on her friends list (the ones I wanted to make sure they could contact me).