I don’t know about you, but I have not yet figured out a way to be on Plurk 24/7. Instead, I sometimes have to work, or sleep, or otherwise have a life. So, very often, when I do get over to Plurk, there are a LOT of plurks waiting for me. Often hundreds and hundreds. Worse, I can see that there are people actively plurking while I am stuck in a river of old plurks. The pressure is relentless.

Hold on, now, plurking is supposed to be fun! Don’t get all strung out about those old plurks. You are never, never going to get to see every plurk, no matter how hard you try. You can torment yourself if you want to, but I have decided that it just isn’t worth it. If I have more than 75 or so plurks awaiting me, here’s what I do:

1.I set the timeline so that I only see my own Plurks, and I look at those. That way, if I asked a question and missed an answer while I was gone, I can still hear it. That happened to me the other night / morning with a question about Airport Extreme and PCs.
2.Set it back to looking at all plurks, click on “Mark all as read”, then click on refresh. It may take a few times if you have been away a while. Pretty soon, all you will have left is the Plurks and responses that are happening RIGHT NOW.
3.Then settle back any enjoy plurking!

For your own mental health, it is important for you to stop plurking in the past and start plurking in the present. That is certainly consistant with the concept of Karma :)

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk. If you see me, stop and say “Hi.”