LJ Idol Season 8, Week 14, twitterpated
I don’t even know how I came across live journal. I fell in love with it instantly, writing long posts about my day with enough details to make one think I was writing a novel. It was a writer’s dream come true. There was plenty of room to rite, and a captive audience. Over time my friends list grew. I introduced others to the site. It became a staple in my life.
My family badgered me until I joined facebook. In their dysfunctional way they use it to keep in touch. I pretend to play along, yet my facebook status seldom reflects how I’m really feeling. I try to keep my comments fairly upbeat. I pretty much find the site shallow when compared to livejurnal. At first I found it hard to type out the concise updates the site seems to demand. I don’t like all the pictures because I can’t see them and they sometimes seem to be the central focus of the site. Aside from all that, I have a Facebook account and I use it.
When I heard about twitter I instantly did not want to join. I avoided it at all costs. How could I write anything in 140 characters or less? How very shallow! I figured it was worse than facebook. My friends really pressured me to get an account but I held fast to the idea that livejournal was my home and I didn’t need anything else.
Of course I gave in eventually. The moment I got my twitter account I was in love. I could have conversations with more than one person at a time. I could get breaking news as it was coming out. There was no limit to the amount of questions I could ask other people and get fast responses. I became obsessed with writing everything I was doing on twitter. I made my account public and had fun sorting through spammers and meeting new people.
I read faithfully every day.
Now the newness and excitement of twitter has worn off. I don’t feel like I did toward it when I first started. People seem to talk about the same things and I get bored. I still check in even though I don’t read it a whole lot. It’s still good for asking questions I need a relatively urgent answer to like how exactly to cook something, or how to fix a problem with my technology.
All in all, I’m glad twitter is there and I’d hate to go back to living without it again. It’s a staple of my life now, just like LJ is. It’s funny how the things we resist so whole heartedly can really become a good part of our lives. Looking back on it now, I shouldn’t have been so dismissive before trying twitter.
My family badgered me until I joined facebook. In their dysfunctional way they use it to keep in touch. I pretend to play along, yet my facebook status seldom reflects how I’m really feeling. I try to keep my comments fairly upbeat. I pretty much find the site shallow when compared to livejurnal. At first I found it hard to type out the concise updates the site seems to demand. I don’t like all the pictures because I can’t see them and they sometimes seem to be the central focus of the site. Aside from all that, I have a Facebook account and I use it.
When I heard about twitter I instantly did not want to join. I avoided it at all costs. How could I write anything in 140 characters or less? How very shallow! I figured it was worse than facebook. My friends really pressured me to get an account but I held fast to the idea that livejournal was my home and I didn’t need anything else.
Of course I gave in eventually. The moment I got my twitter account I was in love. I could have conversations with more than one person at a time. I could get breaking news as it was coming out. There was no limit to the amount of questions I could ask other people and get fast responses. I became obsessed with writing everything I was doing on twitter. I made my account public and had fun sorting through spammers and meeting new people.
I read faithfully every day.
Now the newness and excitement of twitter has worn off. I don’t feel like I did toward it when I first started. People seem to talk about the same things and I get bored. I still check in even though I don’t read it a whole lot. It’s still good for asking questions I need a relatively urgent answer to like how exactly to cook something, or how to fix a problem with my technology.
All in all, I’m glad twitter is there and I’d hate to go back to living without it again. It’s a staple of my life now, just like LJ is. It’s funny how the things we resist so whole heartedly can really become a good part of our lives. Looking back on it now, I shouldn’t have been so dismissive before trying twitter.