So, I’m not super cutting-edge…I imagine those of you reading this on LiveJournal can relate. 🙂 But I did sign up for a Twitter account a few years back…only a year or so after all the cool kids did.
And I tried. I did, honest. But I didn’t GET it; it’s impossible to keep up with everything there–I know it’s not designed for that to be possible–but it made me kind of crazy to not keep up.
And I’m no good at the short, pithy quote. A nice long rambly blog: that’s more my speed. I would try to think up little clever things, and more often than not they would fall flat, or be misinterpreted.
And then some of the things I DID see on Twitter just annoyed me or made me feel bad. It was like walking up to a group of people laughing together, who just kept laughing but never shared the joke with me.
So I eventually stopped going there. I’d ignore the few new follows that came in, and those dwindled away too. Then someone hacked my account and started sending out spam tweets, so I deleted the account. The hacker reopened the account; I deleted it more thoroughly.
But now…I’m rethinking. I go on the Book of Face more often than I used to, and it doesn’t bother me so much any more, not seeing everything. And I keep having little moments every now and then when I think, Wow, if only I tweeted, it would be hilarious to share that. Not to mention, EVERYONE tweets. Even staying away from it, I can still see that there’s a group of people laughing over there. I’d love to be able to share the joke, even just a little bit.
So, advice, please, my friends: how do you use Twitter, if you do? Is it okay to only log in every few days, and post erratically? (People do that, right?) And I’d need a new handle. I don’t want to use the old (hacked) one. Do I want a variation on my name, or what?
Pondering. Any thoughts are welcome!
(Nice to run into you at WFC13 – have started to follow you…)
I use twitter mostly to announce my blog entries, and for the odd trivial observation. One of the best ways of handling social media is to use something called “hootsuite ” – you can bring all your feeds into one place.
Well hello Mr. Page! 🙂 My long lost cousin.
Thanks for the advice about hootsuite–when I tweeted before I used something called tweetdeck, which was already falling apart before I left Twitter, but when it worked, it was a good way to manage it.