As all bloggers have experienced over the last 3 years, the concept of sharing our thoughts, frustrations, and joys through short journal entries in a blog has changed. The social media webscape has forced that upon us and this is actually a good thing.

Tumblr, facebook, Twitter, and reams of other organizations provide canvases for us to share, share, and share. To top all of that off, I have gotten myself involved in activities and hobbies that no longer leave me time to blog as I frequently as I once did — and I don’t really need to.

The people that matter most to me are on facebook and see snippets of my life, as I see theirs. My brother and I have a photography business on the side with its own blog and we both spend lots of time on flickr.

I just don’t have the time to write down my thoughts about movies, theatre, and books with the same obsessiveness I once had. I’d like to, but I like too many things.

So what the heck am I going on about?

I’m saying that this blog is still a part of my life, but it’s a much smaller part than it once was because I share my thoughts in lots of other places. This is probably a good thing too because as I become more famous and sought-after for my opinions on movies, theatre, and books, it becomes more dangerous to have my life laid out in a single public forum on the internet.

At this point, I’m thinking that I’ll focus this blog more towards my experiences in dentistry. I’ll probably throw some interesting personal-life stuff in every now and then, but those of you that truly are interested in my personal life (god knows why you’d be) are already my friends on other sites where I expose more of myself anyway.

Refocusing has involved pausing my twitterfeed aggregation and limiting my use of Twitter. Facebook’s changes over the last year, along with a really useful RSS app, allows my brother and me to do things that we could only do in convoluted ways via Twitter in the past.

Times change and technology follows suit. Although the infrequent posts to this blog leave me appearing stifled, I am in fact the complete opposite because of these continuous innovations in the social media landscape.