Twitter- My Substitute For Real World Co-Workers
I have a million and one things on my plate yet to work on and what have I been doing???
Adding friends on my twitter account!
Why? Really I haven’t clue.. perhaps it is just a weird need to feel like I am cool on twitter and have people following me.. who knows.
The one thing with twitter is that when I add people I almost always… or at least 99% of the time check out their blog or website, or at the very, very least visit their profile for something of interest. Obviously social media types of things interest me, but people interest me as well. It is kind of like Twitter is my substitute for real world co-workers. I can whiz by.. leave a comment and that’s it. I can spill my happenings of the day onto a few people.. most probably just skim it if that… and its gone. But for some reason it makes me feel better just getting it out. Like I AM in somewhat of a social world.. like I am not ALL alone in my office mumbling to myself. it is a bit of a social refuge. Weird.. perhaps.. but I am sure many other people feel this way as well.
The other thing I was noticing is that most of the people on twitter have a very nice blog, website, a business, foundation, or something of the like. They are utilizing twitter partially as a tool for their business and partially for the social vibe… I can understand.. it is a great source of traffic and a way to show people a more real side to who you are. IMO.. the more you know about someone, the easier it is to trust them.
However, I wonder how many people on twitter feel somewhat self conscious adding friends or perhaps feel as though they are a small fry in the pond there because they don’t have a huge site or blog nor do they know all that many people on twitter personally.
I will admit.. there are times when I read a post that is partial comment and partial question and I really, really want to respond because I think it is hilarious or what not… yet I sit on my hands because I am not “part of the circle”. There are many very well know and highly respected individuals on Twitter. And many of the guru’s in the industry have their own little groups of friends there… EVEN in Twitter there are clicks. Sad but true.
I do believe that one of the reasons some of these people utilize Twitter is to gain more fans, more readers, more customers, and have more interaction. It is like being able to instant message hundreds if not thousands of people and ask a question and within mere seconds get a reply. That in itself is awesome power for just about anyone!
But there are others I see just using it for straight business.. straight traffic tactics or spam and they come across as cold and even rude. They only respond to people in their circle and spew stupid comments. For that reason I believe in the end.. social media will kill them, and rightfully so.
Twitter is one of those really new and really interesting tools that has changed a large part of how we interact and I really see it as the only way the future will run… everything in an instant and a huge digital social world that anyone and everyone can take part in. I see many enjoying their time on Twitter.. perhaps a tad too much, but if the ends justify the means.. then tweet away and please stop by to say hello to me.. promise I will say hi back to all my new co-workers!
Twitteritas… Gotta Love it!!
Okie.. this just goes along with my whole umm.. Twitter name “thing” I have. (again.. saying this with an eyebrow raised… really ya need to see my eyebrow!!!)
This is community on Ning.. (ning itself is pretty cool.. will talk more about it soon)- http://twittergirls.ning.com/
It is a community for Girls who love to play with their Twitters… so lmao!! Gotta Love it Kids!!
The power of female tweets span the globe people!
So if you like girls who like to play with their twitters.. check it out! :)
Day One
LOL… I am such a dork!
Hahaha.. its ok.. I am allowed to laugh at myself here…
Anyways.. today I got a twitter account… um.. is it just me.. or does that name just make you wanna go.. huh??? .. (said with one eyebrow raised..)
Anyways.. got the twitter account for this blog. I have two for my other blogs.. but this will be the first time it is all meee baby (or really just me uncensored), ha!
I have a facebook account, stumble account, myspace account, and will start digging deeper into more of the social media scene as time goes on. For my other sites I have also added the blog catalog, mybloglog, techorati, Del.icio.us(another odd name), squidoo, and a few others. It is really uber time consuming to work up a status there on all (but I have a partner with one site.. and she is rockin’).
Right now, I just have a ton of things to catch up on with all my other blogs and sites, and really wondering what I am doing starting this blog… but we will see.
The web just grows so much and moves so quick, things are constantly changing and upgrading it is just amazing.
I wonder sometimes…. if the internet were like traffic in the bay area.. we would be like stuck back with our Apple IIe’s (I know.. I am sooo dating myself here.. but it was cool back then!!) and perhaps with an upgraded decathalon game or something… lol
DOES ANYONE remember that game??
Ok really.. like to do the pole vault you had to type 2 keys.. don’t remember which ones.. but like vb.. so you would bang vbvbvbvbvbv.. to make the little guy run fast.. then hit like the a key or something to make him throw the pole.
I will ALWAYS remember my mother yelling at me (and my sis) to stop banging on the computer… ofcourse my response.. “mom, if you do it quietly you don’t run as fast and lose!” Therefore not my fault those two keys lost their lettering!!