Once upon a time, most people's online presence consisted of whatever websites they happened to be browsing (remember when it was called surfing?) and a singular email address. This was very easily kept track of. If one found a website they particularly liked, it was more than enough simply to bookmark it on one's browser, which was probably Internet Explorer at the time, perhaps even Netscape (man, I'm Internet old) ...
That doesn't cut it anymore.
I did a brief tally of my affiliations with various sites, and I have ...
4 blogs (mostly not updated in quite awhile, which is kind of sad).
3 major email addresses (Personal email, work email, school email)
A Twitter account
A Facebook account
A Google Plus account
Membership at a variety of forums
Regular readership of a number of websites, blogs and webcomics
So here's the deal. I have got to organize myself a little better. What am I going to use to do that? First, there's the Feedly, into which I've organized all the blog posts and such. Secondly, there's the possibility of using Symbaloo in order to organize some of the websites. I'm sure I could probably rig the two to link to each other ...
The possibility exists for me to place the various facets of my online existence into seperate folders which link to each other but do not cross over. When I'm looking for jobs on school division websites, I don't need to accidentally click on some RPG-related forum!* Or indeed, it would probably not be wise to confuse this blog somehow with that defunct one where I did excessively long album reviews.
Our online lives have become far richer and more complex since the early days of the Internet. We need to have a grasp on how to organize it, or it's very easy to get lost.
*= Yes, I'm a nerd.
I think I am in the same boat as you. I use a variety of websites and email addresses so my biggest problem is being organized online.
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