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Upper- Middle-Class Twit of the Year
I signed up for Twitter almost a year ago. I was going to admit to you that it was because I have some sort of addiction to everything social networking/web 2.0-related, but instead I think I will claim that it's because I am trying to establish my online identity by becoming the DOMINANT SRAH OF THE INTERNET. If I early-adopt everything on the Internet, I am more likely to get the username "srah" before anyone else takes it. There. Now ignore what I said about addiction. What addiction?
Anyway, everyone was hopping on the Twitter bandwagon and although I signed up and sent a little Twitter out into the void, it wasn't really something I took seriously. Every couple of months I would remember that I had an account and put something up there, but I wasn't using it regularly. Why on earth would I want to let everyone know what I was doing/feeling at every minute of the day?
Then the Twitter application arrived on Facebook and suddenly I was reading all of my Twittering friends' Twitters throughout the day. Chad(dq) twittered that he wished more of his friends would Twitter and I thought, Okaaaaaaaaay. I'll give it a try, but this is not going to stick. Famous last words of the social networking addict! I Twittered through the UM-Oregon game and through the UM-Notre Dame game and now I seem to be hooked.
So in the last month I have been spending more time on Twitter than on my blog, unfortunately. I suppose it's unfortunate. It means that I'm working on compressing all of my thoughts into 140 characters, rather than telling real stories. But on the other hand that sort of compression is just a different kind of creative process. And it has been a nice way to get updates from the everyday lives of people I don't hear from that often, like these chuckleheads:
I am fascinated by all of your stories and conversations, and that is what keeps me hovering around Twitter!
srah - Thursday, 20 September 2007 - 6:30 PM
Tags: internet, reviews, twitter
Comments (5)
Fraulein N - September 21, 2007 - 3:03 PM - ℓ
I didn't get Twitter at first either, but now I do enjoy it. Although I will admit I don't use it at much as I think you're "supposed" to. It is kind of a challenge to compress your thoughts into a short & sweet little message.
I am still bored by the idea of Twitter but kudos for the completely geeky headline to this post.