Messages in Bottles
Social networking isn’t optional for writers these days. No point bitching about that. But I’ve been noticing something odd lately on both Twitter and Facebook and I wonder if it’s a more recent development or if it’s been there all along and I just didn’t care enough to notice
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You wander by a group chatting about something, and you can toss in a comment or two of your own, and move on, or stand in an empty spot in the room and start making observations, and others at the party will either respond or go freshen up their drink. Either way, just like a party, you are not particularly obliged to explain yourself (unless someone takes offense to your, say, coprophagia pun), and if someone "doesn't get it", then they don't GET to get it.
I think of it as personality shrapnel, each post is part of what's going on in your head, and each posting (hell, it's only 140 characters) is not gonna be a doctoral dissertation. From your postings, I've gleaned nifty things about you (the movies, the pulp books, the Dorothy Kindell search) that can, if you so desire, be elaborated on in a blog posting, which you can then point folks to, and then be done with it.
There are folks that I Followed because of a line I saw RT'd, and yeah, quite a bit of what they posted I didn't get, but over time I started to "get them", and I eventually started to get their particular Twitter voice, and from that I started discovering new stuff (film/music/food/etc), which is one of the reasons I'm on Twitter in the first place (well, that and a meager sense of empowering my self-worth, but that's a Twitter post for another day).
So no, don't worry about a lack of continuity - if someone wants to get continuity, they can re-read your Twitter stream, and if they find something they don't understand, by and large, that's what Google is for. You are not obliged to explain yourself about anything you do for your own amusement (except for those taco trucks, I just dunno, man)....
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