Sonja Foust

I will be the first one to tell you that I’m a Web 2.0 whore. I love all the new social networking stuff. I have an account just about every where. I use just about all my accounts regularly. And I justify it because, hey, I’m an author, I promote my own books, and I have to be visible.

But it’s getting to be too much.

I have so many social applications, I’ve lost track. And a bunch of them do the exact same thing as the others. I mean, do I really need a MySpace page, a Facebook profile, a Bebo profile, a Yahoo!360 page… I’m sure I’m forgetting some. They all have the same stuff on them. A lot of the same people are on all of those apps and I’m “friends” with them everywhere. (It’s odd that I have more “friends” in my adult internet life than I’ve ever had, even in my biggest-lunch-group-on-the-playground phase in elementary school. It’s also odd that I don’t even really know most of them.)

But every time I think I’m going to simplify my life and delete a bunch of my social apps, I panic. And it’s not that I think people will miss me. They won’t. I’m just one more face in the crowd of friends who aren’t really friends. But I’m afraid I’ll miss them. If I delete my MySpace, how will I know when my one friend who doesn’t have any other social apps posts pictures of his new baby? If I delete my Facebook profile, how will I keep up with where everyone from high school works now? Gah!

So I freeze, and I don’t do anything, and I try to keep up with a billion and a half profiles, and then I join more social apps, like FriendFeed, on the pretenses of trying to simplify, when really all I’m doing is signing up for yet another profile.

Is this a clinical neurosis? Are you a social app whore? Have you trimmed your social apps successfully and, if so, HOW, for the love of god? Help me! I’m trapped in Web 2.0!

No one tagged me, I’m just a loser who likes memes.

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
1. Shoe salesperson
2. Day camp counselor
3. Resident Advisor
4. Office schmuck

Four movies I’ve watched more than once:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Aladdin
3. My Best Friend’s Wedding
4. Oklahoma! (London Stage Revival version)

Four favorite places I’ve lived:
1. Redlands, CA
2. Durham, NC
3. Chapel Hill, NC
I don’t remember any other places I’ve lived, so this will have to do.

Four favorite places I’ve travelled:
1. South Dakota (really much more interesting than it sounds)
2. Bahamas
3. Washington D.C.
4. Blue Ridge Mountains

Four places I most want to see before I die:
1. Ireland
2. Tahiti
3. Florence
4. Paris

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Popcorn
2. Ice cream (chocolate malted crunch)
3. Pepperoni pizza
4. Pasta alfredo

* The flu is almost gone! I still have a slightly disgusting cough, but other than that, I’m cured. Woohoo!

* Robbie is almost done with the front door. In fact, it should be up by this evening. Woohoo!

* My boss brought me a newspaper and lots of good stories from his trip to London and Paris last week. Someday I’m going to go myself, but until then, I’m living vicariously. Woohoo!

* “Cat in the Mist” is still doing really well! I’m slightly terrified that it’s just my relatives and friends buying copies over and over again, but I’m trying to have faith that even some people that don’t know me have bought it and enjoyed it. Woohoo!

So what about you? What are your woohoos for the week?

Those of you who are NaNoWriMo crazies probably already know that April has been dubbed ScriptFrenzy month. You write a 100-page script in the month of April. I, personally, have no real desire to write a script (and no idea how to write a script, though I had no idea how to write a novel and did it anyway). So instead of writing a script in the month of April, I’m going to write another novel.

Why?

1. The Will Write for Wine girls talked about voice last week on their ‘cast, and they say it takes about five novels before you find your voice. I’ve written three fulls so far (and countless short stories and stuff I never finished), so I think I better get crackin’ because I want to find my voice!

2. The first novel in my series is on a publisher’s desk right now, and I want the second one to be done before she calls me back and begs to buy the entire series for wads and wads of cash. Heehee.

3. I’m a lazy, lazy bum and need to write something to make me feel less like a lazy, lazy bum.

4. Why not?

If anyone wants to join me, I’ve added a word count widget to my sidebar for the purposes of goading. Please feel free to goad, even if you’re not going to join me in writing a novel in the month of April.