It's official. I am a Tweeter.
Or is it Twitter-er?
Whatever, I'm on Twitter.
I fought it long enough. But when my alma mater and current employer invited me to follow them, I had to. It would be rude not to, right?
So anyway, I don't know what to do with this. Updates on current happenings at my school will be handy, but another batch of emails! I'm going into information overload. I've just gotten the hang of Facebook. And it's stealing a lot of my time, both professionally and personally.
I have to update my Facebook group for my professional organization. I have to manage the status updates from all my 'friends.' I still have my regular emails--three addresses and counting--and let's not forget the old fashioned phone and voicemail. I don't know if I can handle one more communication venue.
I do see some value in having updates on weather conditions, road conditions, sports scores for my favorite teams, maybe sale notices from a preferred retailer. But I get all that in email, so why do I need it again on Twitter? I don't have unlimited texting, so I'm not going to have these tweets sent to my cell phone. And if they are sent to my email, then that's simply a duplicate of the email notifications I already get.
I propose that all those marketers, public relations and communications specialists out there please consolidate. Please just give me one form of contact and I promise to pay attention. After all, isn't that what you want? My attention? Isn't that the new commodity?
And really, any other kind of personal updates, like I'm shopping till I drop, or FML, or I just picked my nose--I don't really care. I'm not going to subscribe to yet another form of narcissistic egocentric me-ism. I'm inundated enough with all my Facebook updates and Youtube videos. If I have to waste my time on any more useless information, my eyes will bug out of my head worse than SpongeBob. Wait, that already happens when I watch SpongeBob.
I guess what I've decided is that Twitter-ers are like the real birds--full of....
Your blog was fun read with your little ad ins and rants and raves. I enjoyed! I do also completely agree with the point you were making as well- what’s next for the social networking world? How can we and why do we need to keep up with our friends and groups on 8 different social mediums? Wouldn’t just having one condensed site be much easier? I caved in and got twitter about 3 weeks ago now and when I read that we needed it for class I thought well at least I can say I have a reason now. I only follow Good Morning America and People magazine and then I have one follower from out of state that I don’t even know. I just don’t see Twitter picking up quit as well as Facebook has. At least you aren’t bothered quite as much with updates as you are with Twitter. I too, chose not to have my twitter updates sent to my phone. If I want to get away from the technology world I simply do not start up my computer…I wouldn’t want twitter ‘stalking’ me on my phone everywhere I went!
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