Twitter

Well, I have finally gotten a twitter account. Not because I'm pretty fed-up with facebook (but I am). Not because I find google+ pretty useless. Not because I'm trying to engage in conversations on the web. Nope. I've done it because the school Alice will go to has a twitter account / feed and I expect that will be a nice way to get info and I want to be familiar with it before she starts in September.

I remember Ryan urging me to get an account and he died in 2009, so it's been a while that I've been mulling around the thought.

So. Now I've got a new social networking tool with a different set of rules and expectations. Do I stop posting on facebook? Probably not. But I expect that I will surf less since already I'm more amused by what I've seen on twitter. I might have been able to see similar posts if I had subscribed to more people that I don't know in FB, but... Let's try to keep different types of messages on different types of social media. The medium is the message and all that.

I have to learn all the new rules and in's and out's. I subscribed to a bunch of people including Felicia Day. Shortly after I had done that "Felicia Day" added me back. My first follower was Felicia Day! But she's only got 3100 people following her... and I'm not following her? Huh? Turns out it was a fake account that must watch who's subscribing to @feliciaday and add them back. Darrr...

Ah well. I hope that it can keep me amused and is useful. Only time will tell.