Ok, everyone. I’ve seen the video. Thanks for emailing it, posting it, sharing it, asking me about it. It’s hilarious. It speaks some truth. But I don’t see what the big deal is.
I’m not even that great of a Twitter user. I follow 56 people. 52 people follow me. I’ve dropped 530 updates. Titter Grader gives me an 85/100. Not exactly hall of fame numbers, there. And yet, I apparently update more than most of my friends. People have their opinions about that kind of activity.
Let’s set some things straight.
I don’t sit around all day in my underwear, eating microwave pizza and tweet from my laptop. I walk around the city all day in my underwear tweeting from my cell phone.
Kidding. I only tweet fully dressed.
80% of my online activity now occurs on my cell phone. More like 95% if you count Twitter only. Far more convenient than busting out the lappy or chaining myself to a desktop. But what I gain in convenience, I loose in spelling. My friends who fancy themselves to be the facebook spelling police have called me on my transgressions a handful of times (my titter and facebook accounts are linked).
My apologies. I have fat thumbs. And it’s hard to give a thorough proof read when you are speeding down the freeway at 80mph trying to wrap up a tweet before the stoplight turns green or pay attention to your daughter. Quite frankly, I’m always multitasking when I tweet. I’m hanging a ceiling fan, I’m watching something on TV, I’m cooking. You can continue to correct my spelling, but (a) I’m already aware, and (b) I don’t care.
Which all begs the question: Why Tweet?
For me it’s a challenge and it’s fun. I like to see if I can make people laugh in 140 characters or less. I like to see if I can get a rise out of people in 140 characters or less. Sometimes I give my own blog or someone else’s blog a little love. But mostly, I’m just trying to get reactions from people. A lot of times it works.
Look, the great thing about the new wave of online communication is that people can always opt out. You don’t like what someone tweets? Stop following them. Your friends annoy you on the Facebook? Adjust your sliders and their stuff won’t show up in your info feed. It beats the heck out of people blowing up your inbox with annoying forwards as was the case a couple of years ago.
Finally, a word about this whole “Twitter and Facebook are stupid because if you were really friends with people you would just email or call them”. That’s stupid. There are tons of people on both sites that I communicate with a lot more because we got reacquainted online. And I have some good friends that I call, email, tweet and facebook. Since when is it bad to have options?
There’s no twouble wiht Twitters. It’s just another nice online twool.
Renew and Restore
