Comments on: A Little Bitter About Twitter

By: Rona Maynard

Rona Maynard — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:05:38 +0000

I’m tweeting a lot less than I used to but still appreciate the sense of community that it fosters if you’re vigilant about weeding out the spammers. Through Twitter, I’ve been offered travel advice on Shanghai by a resident expat, an opportunity to appear on a panel about women and the work force, and a guest post on the website of a multi-talented woman who later hosted my husband and me for dinner in her home. If not for Twitter, I wouldn’t have encountered Tessa, who in turn led me to Ruth. Funny how life unfolds in the virtual world.

By: MarthaAndMe

MarthaAndMe — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:43:55 +0000

I get exhausted with all the social media too sometimes. Twitter is tiring. But I’ve reached a truce with it – I tweet at least 2 things per day, read through the messages for a few minutes then close it.

By: Roxanne @ Champion of My Heart

Roxanne @ Champion of My Heart — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:39:05 +0000

It’s exhausting … isn’t it. I cannot imagine email (for business communication) will go away, but for FB and twitter and everything else … I believe it’s added 1-3 hours to a normal work day, which is why, after dinner, I’m visiting blogs.

By: Duchess

Duchess — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:24:21 +0000

I would tweet (see, I know that’s the verb) only I can’t really see the screen on my cellphone unless I stop and take my specs off and then people run into me on the street and that makes me type the wrong things with my thumbs.

But I have good news! You don’t need to tweet. You just need to sign up. Even though I don’t tweet, I regularly get emails saying people are following me. I have followers!

Whenever I get those emails, I think, poor misguided souls. Never mind. That’s what poor misquided souls are for.

Almost makes me want to get better glasses. People are waiting for me to speak — er, tweet.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:04:50 +0000

Oh Ruth! Beware the Twitter Jabberwocky! I got sucked into the Twitterverse and have sadly neglected my blog, as you so kindly reminded me. Rona is a very disciplined Tweeter, for which I envy her. I have to force myself to log off Tweetdeck and Brizzly and Tweetie and all the other seductive ways of keeping me tied up in Twitter’s cosmic conversation. Otherwise my blog would not be the only thing neglected around here!

By: Winston

Winston — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:38:08 +0000

Wither, O’ wither shall I go? Not to twitter!
To me, it’s just another pimple on the face of techno-adolescence.
I don’t understand it any of it.
Social networking: grabbing a book, a newspaper, a few croonies, and sitting together in a retro coffee shop for some old-fashioned face-to-face stream-of-consciousness gabbing.

By: ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:26:06 +0000

I think the neurotics-are-really-normal rumor was probably started by a neurotic. So naturally, I subscribe to it.

By: Alisa Bowman

Alisa Bowman — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:06:35 +0000

I read somewhere that people who think they are neurotic are usually very normal, and people who think they are normal are usually very neurotic. As for the technology, I don’t think you HAVE to do any of it. Save your sanity. Do what makes sense to you. I still hand write my to-do lists, btw.

By: Anne Gibert

Anne Gibert — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:03:26 +0000

Sometimes I think about twittering, but then, I’d need someone to twitter to, and I don’t know who that would be. Or do I have the wrong idea all together? Perhaps you twitter to the world. I fear it has passed me by. Anyhow, my thumbs are arthritic. I think you need thumbs to twitter. And to text. Never mind.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:27:07 +0000

All these social networking tools take up too much time – not in doing them, but in actually figuring out HOW to do them!