The space in between

[atalie]

Somethings have happened that even though I wish I could talk about it, it is not the sort of thing you talk about in polite company. And while I do not think anyone reads my journal, I think a public journal would count as polite company

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[sunjoy]

Hi Atalie. I just logged into lj for the first time in a couple of years. Good to know people i know are still using the site! I never was a big Facebook user, and while I like that it is a "glue" medium that lets anyone easily share anything digital with anyone else, I'm concerned with privacy issues and am not too comfortable with the notion of friendshipbeing reduced to a collection of twitter feeds. I feel that LJ type entries may be a better way of relating both to myself (as a writer) and to others (as a reader). Good to hear that you are a therapist and dance teacher (I think you were still in grad school last I checked). For my part, I am a licensed massage therapist now (I've yet to look for work in the field though), and am back in school to be a physical therapist. That's 3.5 yrs of grad school + 1 yr of undergrad pre-reqs left to go.

Regards!

[atalie]

Sunjoy! So lovely to see you back! I have had an urge to write lately, and it LJ called me back!

I am an avid FB user myself, constantly uploading pictures and status updates. However, FB just does not provide the space, nor does it allow one to have a sense of privacy, in order to express oneself more adequately. I have realized that I miss the sense of intimacy that I had from reading livejournals from people I never ever met. Plus, I really just needed to have the space to put some thoughts into words.

I am a psychologist now, actually. Just became a full member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario (our regulatory body) last December, and I teach graduate level psych courses, and I sub pretty frequently as a dance teacher :) It is odd to be a "grown up" *smile*

Good for you for being a licensed massage therapist and amazing that you are back in school! Is there a population in particular you want to work with?

[sunjoy]

I think the default for most of us in PT is to work in geriatrics. But there are a lot of settings and I'm not at all sure which I'd be best suited too. There's time for that!

Facebook.... very mixed blessing. It mixes public and private in ways that have unintended consequences that are hard to predict. Apparently job invterviews will now sometimes ask for your facebook password. I also don't trust that

[sunjoy]

...I also don't trust the way social networking now is integrated into all websites, and the way one can remain logged-in across sites. I don't want, for example, my comments on a NYT story about sex worker's rights to be tied to a facebook or gmail identity that employers have access to.

Someone wrote an article that online identities do not reflect the way humans interact in real life. IRL we seamlessly perform diverse identities depending on whom we are talking to. Online identities consolidate that in a very artificial way, such that people can see a cross-section of my multiple ways of relating to different people.

What kind of psych do you do? I'll be really impressed and happy if academic psychologists could get concepts like confirmation bias to be a part of everyday political discourse! lol. Even better, give us tools to be aware of and mitigate such biases.