Twittering your life away
My husband just shared this with me, so I, naturally, had to share with you.
Dear Reader Takeaways:
- Don’t treat social networking like collecting business cards. Seriously, Social != (does not equal) Business [sometimes, maybe, but certainly not all the time].
- Social networking is a [slightly] obnoxious term. Most hoity toity terms for things are, indeed, hoity toity. Not taking them so seriously is healthier.
- LJ is full of “self-indulgent maxi-musings.” I agree, and it’s just not my scene, which is a big part of why I’ve all but abandoned it. It’s got it’s own culture, see?
- Sometimes it’s better to be out rescuing a baby from a burning submarine than being online all the freakin’ time (I say, typing away at midnight on a Saturday… hey! Whatever, see, cuz I was out last night for shabu shabu then 2 hours of mead sampling, at work all day today, and I’m going to a craft/artist market tomorrow with Yelpers and then craft night with a whole other set of friends, so it’s my social night off this weekend!). Go out, get some sun, and talk to real people.
- Random hash brown batches make interesting tweets. Especially to nomPr0n freaks like me.
Tags: culture, fun, socialnetworking, twitter
Well put. Which has a culture more suited to library folk? Twitter or Pownce?
@Stephen Michael Kellat: Thanks.
As for your question, that might be better put to librarians who actually use Pownce. I can tell you that I see a lot of librarians using Pownce, or Pownce *and* Twitter (which is redundant for me). I checked out Pownce myself, but it just wasn’t for me. I have established outlets of sharing that work better for me, and I’m not in the market to treat social networking sites as Pokemon; I keep my digital joint fairly streamlined and efficient (as per previous post on how I share).
Loved this! Thank you for being intelligent in your writing about social networking. (short time reader, first time commenter.) I’m still in the early stages (on FB less than a year), (on Twitter less than a month), (Del.icio.us less than a year), blogger for three years now. It was comforting to me to have on my gmail sidebar today that you were not enjoying your Saturday–by 5 pm I was ready to throttle the sweet little old lady who just wanted the Ken Burns DVD set of The War. So grateful that I only have to work with the public on a Saturday every so often. And thank you for your two cents on Pownce–I went over to see what it looked like this week and thought, gah! I think I’ll stick with ONE micro-blogging site, and my friends are on this one.
Pringles. That is an *excellent* analogy.
I love Lore! He makes me happy! Other than that, I think you know how I feel/stand about all this stuff.
@Suzi W.: Hey there! Thanks for reading, and for commenting. I lurve comments, because I really dig direct discussions.
And thank you for the kind words on my social networking writing. I’ve lived the majority of my life on the social and tech circles of life, and in that almond-shaped space where the two circles overlap, so I kinda see it as my contribution to the library profession, as well as to social networking n00bs everywhere. It’s nice to know that I make sense to my readers.
Seriously on the sweet little old lady bit, I totally, totally hear you. I must say, it’s a whole other post, or even an email correspondence or Gchat, but yeah, I’m finding that Saturdays are becoming increasingly intolerable (and I think I know why). I talk about how librarianship is a service industry all the time, and that you need to know that coming in, and I’m totally accepting of that… but still, every human has limits, and I’m just hitting mine earlier every Saturday that I work.[/minirant]
I’m also glad to hear you say, “Hey, I took a look at that, and it’s not right for me.” I like it when users are really thinking about what they use and why, it’s smart and awesome. Like you.
Cruncha crunch munch!
@John Klima: Indeed. I knew you’d feel me on this.
Just commenting to say that I still exist.
(See, we need Twitter to capture that impulse. Putting it in other people’s blog comments is messy.)
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I can’t tell whether or not you’re trying to make a point using your comment (incorrectly), in lieu of a tweet…
I think I was trying to make more of a “joke” than a “point.”
I guess if I was trying to make any kind of point it is that I see no real problem with having Twitter as a stream of entries that mostly just mean “I still exist,” as it seems to be an acceptable output for that impulse, and it’s easily ignored if that’s not what you are into at the moment.