While writing another post, I found myself thinking how I wished it was possible (or at least easier) to keep up with all the stores and creators I find interesting.
With the number of in-world groups you can join limited to 42 (which sounds like a lot, but really isn’t), keeping up with everything is a real challenge. I routinely only have about 1-2 slots open at any given time, and lately that number has been 0. When I started dancing, I need one slot for the troupe. These days, it’s usually at least two. Yes, LL upped the group limit from 25, and yes, you can use subscribos to stay updated. It all sounds good.
But what ends up happening is that I am constantly in ‘information overload’ mode. The idea behind subscribos is great, and if you don’t have one for your business, you should get one. I am interested in lots of things in lots of different categories and subscribos help keep me informed when I don’t have a group slot available.
However, when I log in, I am deluged with notices and notecards from all the subscribo lists I’m on. Half the time I end up deleting them because I need to work on something else and they are just clutter. Sometimes after subscribing, I’ll find that the store/group is just not a good fit for my tastes. So then I have to research where the store is so I can tp back there to ‘unsubscribe.’ I wish there was a way to unsubscribe via a website or something.
Other stores/groups require you to send a notecard to someone in order to be unsubscribed. Again, time can often be an issue. Yet other stores/groups send you the SAME notice EVERY SINGLE DAY. There’s a pose store (that, unfortunately, I really like) that does this and it drives me batty. It’s just more junk cluttering up my inventory.
I do a lot of shopping on MarketPlace because I can see a ton more items faster than I can tp’ing around in-world and waiting for things to rezz. (I blame some of the rezz issues on my computer, but I have recently upgraded my graphics card and find that some places are just built poorly. I don’t need to see the entire place filled with giant textures all at once – that’s what MP is for, silly.) I wish there was a way on MarketPlace to ‘favorite’ a store, not just an item. I find cool things while I am surfing that make me want to come back.
I know that a lot of creators/stores have FB pages. However, I refuse to use FB. (You can read about that here and here.) I thought about joining Plurk and/or Flickr (read my thoughts on Flickr here), but decided against it. I already have a multitude of various email/social media accounts, I don’t want to make my information overload any worse.
Maybe someday I’ll figure out a better, faster, easier way to stay connected to the things/stores/creators/whatever that I’m interested in. Until then, I guess I’ll just keep wading through the mounds of notices. 
A Kat and A Mouse 