Reinventing super log off: my leanings from some weenings

I wrote a post a couple of years ago about social media security trends emerging that allow users to take privacy into their own hands. These included whitewalling and super log off. 

I've just come back from a wek's holiday abroad with almost zero mobile signal - the first time I've done this in two years. I put myself through a form of super log off I suppose.

I noticed something different though in how I weened myself off the social web and weened byself back on, so thought I'd share (my habits must have changed a lot in the last two years as it wasn't like this last time). 

Weening off

• Email took a day to ween off (the day between leaving work and getting on the plane)
• Twitter also took a day to ween off
• I didn't ween off Facebook really. I checked in every now and then as it's a nice and tidy list of friends and not too noisy

Weening on

• This is what surprised me - Twitter looked horribly messy and took me several days to get back into. Too many random noisy conversations and it inspired me to delete a lot of followers 
• The email mountain was huge and difficult to erode. I spend my days in meetings and with clients, and found it difficult to spend the time needed to work through about 3,000 emails (you know what it's like)
• Foursquare is interesting agein
• Facebook remains the tidy friend group
• Our company social network was a great way of bropwsing company updates

Anyone else finding this? Email mountains, Facebook tidiness and Twitter noise? 

Comments

[Paul Stallard]

Know the feeling.Especially the weening off when on holiday. It always takes me a good couple of days to leave emails alone.