July 13, 2009

• Why facebook and twitter now get all my attention

  I only joined twitter because my favorite author (i.e Neil Gaiman) mentioned it on his blog, and since I have an unhealthy crush on all that is that man, I joined so I could follow his tweets. I am unashamed.

  At first I really didn't know what to say within the 140 character limit, and found myself talking in third person like facebook's little text box forces one to do if one's sentences are to make sense. It soon became obvious though that with twitter you could literally say whatever you want...with 140 characters however you wanted.  I am now a bit of a twitter addict. I haven't given up facebook yet and probably won't, mostly because my friend threatened to unfriend me in real life if I deactivated my page, but also because facebook also allows me to do what twitter has let me perfect: the art of short, random but enlightening sentences.

  I won't divulge how many updates a day I make, but I will say that they range from commentary on the nature of pick up lines (as yelled by two men from a truck in my general direction while walking along the sidewalk) to the largeness and oddness of life. I've realized, in a circumlocuted sort of way, that I am much better at writing short things, vignettes, moments, thoughts, things without a general focus or story line (as evidenced by the decided scarcity of short stories on my laptop). Some day I'll learn to capitalize on that.

  At the moment though, this is much longer than 140 characters, and I'm spent.

  • 9:07 pm
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