I should just give up on the distractions because they are taking me forever to get posted, but I'm not giving up yet. If anything, this just goes to show you how easily I get distracted. In fact, one of the reasons I get so distracted is due to what I'm writing about right now.
This blog post by Robert Scoble (a "technical evangelist") is a perfect example of how I feel right now as a result of Twitter. Very, very few of my myriad friends use Twitter, so they wonder why (and get angry because) my Facebook status always says that I'm Twittering. Luckily, I felt really tech-savvy because, with so few people on Twitter, I feel like I might be one of those "early adopters." And they always seem like such cool people.
In the grand scheme of things, I'm probably not a true early adopter, but at least I'm trying. Anyone else having issues with wanting more (real life) friends to get on Twitter? Anyone I'm (real life) friends with on it already without my knowledge? Let me know so I can follow you. If I'm not already (real life) following you. Because I do that sometimes. If you want to follow me (like all of these people), it's just "MikeBilleter."
Federal agents mad cause I'm flagrant, tap my cell and the phone in the basement...
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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I know I'm not an early adopter. I joined probably a year after what I'd consider to be the early adopters. I'm a "wait and see what everyone says and if my husband likes it" kind of adopter. And then, sometimes I still don't adopt things.
I'd prefer to only have a small group of friends on Twitter. Otherwise it's like a chatroom. And sometimes I twit about things I don't want everyone I know to know about. That's why I have a blog. Plus, if I'm following those I don't know and who have different views and experiences than me, wouldn't I, theoretically, become a more well-rounded person? I'd like to think so.
I don't consider myself to be an early adopter of Twitter, and my first tweet was Feb 7, 2007. But I do wish more of my friends used Twitter. These days, I add people with even the most obscure, tangental relation to me. "Hey, you enjoy animals? Follow!" When you early adopt, you have to do it for you and hope people eventually follow.
Yeah I agree with you m!les. I'm following four or five comic book writers strictly because I'm a comic book nerd. Probably seven times out of ten their posts aren't even about comic books either. Sometimes I'm tempted to set up two accounts and have one for friends and one to follow people who post industry-related news. But that's just too creepy this early on. I've gotten in trouble too many times for stalking people as it is.
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