Identity Crisis On Twitter

Struggling to find an identity is very common place when it comes to mothers. It can get even more complicated when it comes to Social Media Moms. For me, the problem has been the number of identities I think I can take on in social media. Not only have I started as a freelance writer, but I've gone to working with businesses, to writing ebooks, to just joining blogging communities online.

You have to sit there and really figure out who you are and where you fall into place.

The other day I was looking at my Twitter profile page, something I have not done in months, and I thought my description looked a little bit all over the place. I sat here at my desk and for the next hour, typed, backspaced, and typed again. I couldn't figure out how I wanted to describe myself to other people on the World Wide Web.

* If you look now at my Twitter account you'll see that I couldn't figure out what to change it to, so the same it remains!

To some people I am the local Mommy Blogger, to other's, I am their Social Media Mentor, while to most people who only occasionally visit my social networks, I'm the woman who write funny articles for their favorite blogs.

Do you struggle with an identity crisis when it comes to the Internet? What are some of your tips to working around it?

Facebook For Couples

I spend a lot of my time online and networking, whether it is on the laptop or my iPhone. My job is working is bloggers, businesses, and freelance writing, so all of my work has to do with the beautiful world wide web. Most of the time, I'm also constantly promoting people on Facebook and Twitter. My husband owns a moving company. While he does some Internet Marketing (he should be doing more) he spends most of his time working, rather than being on the computer. He doesn't even own his own computer (gasp!!) In the past couple of months though, he has just started taking up Facebook.

This has been both good and bad. On my personal Facebook, I use it to update family and friends on my kids and stay in touch with extended family. A lot of close blogging friends and contacts also stay in contact with me on my personal Facebook, versus just calling them on the phone. What my husband doesn't understand is pretty much the need for having certain people on my Facebook.

Likewise, I feel like my husband just adds anyone he can on Facebook, people he doesn't even know, and then shares pictures of our kids on his Facebook. We've even had arguments over Facebook, isn't that silly :)

We've been able to talk through most of our problems, but that had me thinking about what other couples do with online networking tools.


My question is, how do you deal with Facebook or Twitter and Your Significant Other? Do you share passwords, only add people who are mutual friends? How about jealousy, do you ever experience jealousy with the time your significant other spends and people who comment on their profile?

Apple Doesn't Think Of Mom Bloggers

My Macbook Pro is just too darn big! We recently got back from vacation a week ago, and during that vacation, I was hosting an online conference, completing school work, and writing blog posts. I brought my Macbook Pro, my only laptop, with me to get some work done. While in the car traveling, there was a time where a session during the online conference called me to moderate it from the car. I pulled out my gigantic 17 in Macbook Pro and got to work. I was getting crumbs on it, bumping the arm rest left and right, and overall it was disastrous. Even when we got to hotels, it was way to stressful to pull it out and set it up to get any work done. Most of the time, I used my iPhone to do any blogging and updating. My mother has also has an iPad, but when I used it, I felt the same way with the Macbook Pro, it was still too big, and more time consuming to type anything.

Also, I've been doing a lot of traveling back and forth from my apartment to my moms house. Granted, the trip isn't anything more than 2 miles, but I have to lug the laptop with me to get some things done that aren't covered by the iPhone.

So currently I am at my mothers house using a Dell Inspiron Mini that they have. 10 inches. I am in love. Granted, I am an Apple fan all the way, but this small laptop makes it so ideal with two small kids. I'm able to just pick up this laptop, run up stairs, throw it in my purse, and get work done virtually anywhere.

I know Apple's solution is the iPad, but like I said before, it's still too big and too fragile. They also have the Macbook Air that is 11 inches, but most netbooks are 10 or 9 inches, which again makes the Macbook Air too big. With 2 little ones, something that fragile around while blogging, being it is so thin, also wouldn't work with my nerves, and my pocket book.

I will never part with my Macbook Pro, but I may need to rent this thing from my parents more often than not. Or of course, I could buy my own :)

Awaiting The iPad 2

Currently, I am on of those tech nerds scouring every blog and twitter feed, awaiting the announcement of the iPad 2. I am a huge Apple fan, from computers, to iPods, every single iPhone, lover of iTunes, and everything else. One thing though that I was skeptical was the iPad. I thought it was super cool, but thought that it did everything my iPhone and Macbook did, and that it would be a waste of money.

That was before it got a bunch of cool upgrades like wireless printing. That was also before my mother waltzed in one day and showed me her new iPad.