I'm not sure how I managed to spend so many years grumbling about the failings of fb/twitter/lj/tumblr, without ever getting round to joining Dreamwidth.

I guess maybe it was that I wanted to do it *properly* -- find a decent username, use it as a space to show other sides of myself. But I never got round to any of that, and so just followed the general drift towards ever-more-obnoxiously commercial spaces.

Ello has finally prompted me to turn up here. It's so obviously inferior to dreamwidth in every way, and still I signed up. Pretty embarrassing, really! But I'm here now.