My internet life (creative title is creative)

I don't even know what to say about my internet life. It's just sort of always been there, parallel to "real" life (oh how I hate that expression). I think we got internet when I was about thirteen, and I found fandoms and penpal sites pretty much right away. I even had the oh-so-scary older male penpal friend overseas, who I think really freaked out my parents, but who, from all I can tell, was actually a quite decent guy, and it wasn't really his fault I'd claimed to be 21 'cause people my age tended to annoy the hell out of me xD. He got me into literature again, after I'd stopped reading entirely, mostly thanks to a truly awful teacher. Considering that I study literature now I can't quite help but consider him a positive influence on my life.

So yeah, I started early, and I started right away to spend a little more time online than many people would consider normal. But growing up in a tiny, quite old-fashioned place it was a way to get out.

Recently my way of socialising on the internet has changed though. A lot of my internet friendships only exist on twitter anymore - possibly because do most of my online stuff on my iPod nowadays, where chats don't work and writing more than 140 characters is kind of a bitch. I'm actually trying to get myself to work on my computer more just to get more involved.

I wouldn't say the internet is detached from "real" life for me, but I definitely try to keep "real" and "online" apart on the net. At first I felt extremely queasy about friending online friends on facebook. My RL friends don't really know what I get up to online, most of my online friends know very few "hard" facts about my "real" life. But in the end that's actually turning into a problem for me, because with the kind of jobs I'm looking into you need a network, and you need an online presence, and really a well-kept not-too-personal blog, for example, would look quite good on my CV. But I'm quite freaked out about attaching my real name (or my face!) to anything on the internet (it doesn't help that my parents still attempt to spy on me online).

(Sorry about the rambliness.)