Flippin heck, I'm wondering if I'll ever get any work done again. I've joined Twitter.com AND I'm on Facebook too. Between the two of them, my attention is being pulled. I'm favouring Twitter more than Facebook at mo but that could just be novelty factor!
Here's the thing, Facebook you have to 'know' people (or at least know of them) before you can build your friends list. So you send an invite off to who in the real world is your actual friend and then get hugely deflated if they don't respond or agree to add you as a friend on Facebook. The reasons for this could be;
a) they don't want to go down the slippery road of Social Networking in case they can't stop sliding
b) they haven't got the time to join Facebook and wonder how on earth you have
c) they're actually not THAT interested in you and can't be bothered to respond
Clearly c) is death to your self esteem so I try not to think about that response too much.
But anyhow, you start off of course with 0 friends and you feel incredibly stupid, til you've got at least 20 or 30, then you think you're doing well until you realise that other people have 500 + friends and once again, deflated you berate yourself for not going out as much as you should have done when you were in your 20's!
As for Twitter – there's no such nonsense – (beathe sigh of relief).
'Friends' are renamed 'Followers' on Twitter and you don't have to know them – I've only been twittering 4 days and I've got 44 followers! Cool! They are complete strangers who look at your profile and if they think you sound interesting, they'll follow you and whatever you write comes up on their screen and they even reply and you can reply back – instant friends! Perfect for those who fret in the dead of night about not being popular enough.
Explaining this to The Husband the other day, of course, meant he wanted some of the action. So I signed him up and gave him a profile 'MeetTheHusband' (what else!)
So now he twitters along 'with' me – or even 'to' me – while we're in the same room – sat opposite each other – me on laptop – him on my old laptop...
Last night this was the conversation;
wife twittered 'I love my job, will be up at 6am working with tea, laptop and pups at feet'
husband twittered 'don't bring my tea up til 6.45!'
wife twittered 'deal...as long as you put the rubbish out'
Not a word was spoken! THAT'S how a marriage works!
So very nice to see that we aren't the ONLY couple who communicates with gadgets! My sister and I were at a baby shower the other day Texting back and forth about the Mom-to-be's loony Stepmother-in-law. Great fun. We enjoyed ourselves immensely!
Posted by: Dori | January 30, 2009 at 06:26 AM
Oh that's hilarious! How brilliant!
Posted by: Lynette Allen | January 30, 2009 at 06:59 AM
Flippin' 'eck!
Thank you for saying that for me - I'm certain you said 'Flippin eck' it JUST FOR ME!!! Anyway, I'll just state the obvious - as in real life, the number of friends you have in your internet social network, doesn't matter as much as the quality.
:-)
x
Posted by: Richard Sheppard | February 07, 2009 at 10:02 AM