So, even though I'm not sure what it's for or how to do it, I decided to start using my Twitter account. (Yes, I have one. Way back in the heady days of 2008, a friend who is in publicity insisted I sign up. Technically my Twitter feed is now a toddler.)
It's strange how social media can reduce your inhibitions to basically zero.
There are things I won't write on my blog -- usually because it's either too much information to share on the Internet, or because I don't want to embarrass myself professionally somehow.
There are things I won't write on my facebook because I've lost the urge to try to be funny in a facebook post, and because I've realized I'm facebook friends with a lot of people who aren't real life friends so I'd rather not share too much.
And yet this morning, I seriously considered tweeting, "Narrowly avoided suffocation via knockoff Spanx. A near-death experience is a good way to start the day."
Clearly, after only 48 hours with Twitter, my e-inhibitions have plummeted.
I think I'm going to have to do a lot of pause-consider-execute or abandon analysis now that this new app is loaded on my phone. Undies talk isn't something to be bandied about lightly.
Yeah, I don't know what it is about Twitter, but I've found myself much more likely to talk about things there that I refuse to post in other places. Which is even more silly when you consider that my Twitter name is my ACTUAL NAME.
ReplyDeleteLOL! I don't Tweet, but I can see where it would be tempting to use Twitter to share a near-death experience.
ReplyDeleteOMG that would have been the PERFECT tweet! And I think you've officially coined a new phrase: E-HIBITIONS!!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Twitter (again?) I'm ali_cross . . . friend me dude!
AND I don't know if I said this when I've visited before, but I *love* your blog title. It cracks me up every time.
Ali - thanks! I added you on The Twitter, as the young people are calling it these days.
ReplyDeleteI love twitter mainly because other people are hilarious. But I have no idea what to do on there. Thank goodness for 'retweet'. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's soooooo true. Everyone in the Twitterverse knows that I lost a bunch of weight last year and that my bf has a decal of Megatron on his car and a bunch of Star Wars figurines from the Dark Side.
ReplyDeleteyeah...