I Don’t Follow…
Do I follow you on Twitter? Heck, no! That was way too much for me, ya’ll. It lasted what, like 24 hours? I know, I’m so old fashioned. You know, back in my day we just wrote something called a blog post. And then, if someone was particularly tech savvy and they wanted to read it it, they’d use something called Bloglines. We didn’t have any of these fancy schmancy tweets that all you young ‘uns are talking about today.
Yeah, I guess not everything is for everybody. I know people use it to feel in the know, but I just felt really behind, even more so than I did just last night. I guess I’m just the grandma who refuses to learn how to use the internet because it just feels too fast paced, too complicated, too much for her aging self. I hope to use the time that I would have tweeted by reading your blogs more carefully, and writing your comments more frequently and thoughtfully. I’m a blogger, not a Twitterer. But I’m glad we can all still be friends, you TWITS!
Oh, and Happy Father’s Day, honey. Your gift is that I’ve deleted my Twitter account. It really is the gift that keeps on giving, as my mind is now here in our house again and I’m not staring at the screen trying to figure out what the heck is going on. He also got a used Superman DVD box set, which again, we will be able to watch tonight only because I am letting go of the twitter thing.
Happy Father’s Day everyone!
Well, at least I won’t be the only one who is not on twitter
You know, that is exactly why I have not gotten into Twitter. I already waste plenty of hours per day on blogs, thanks.
I haven’t twittered in about 2 weeks! And I have my twitterings on my blog’s sidebar. Ugh.
You JUST convinced me to never Twitter. I was wondering what it was all about, but it sounded addicting and time consuming. Thanks for the heads up!
Twitter is goofy. I do it out of obligation, which is dumb.
Oh, btw, I tagged you…
See I don’t even understand what the heck Twitter is, so yeah. I guess that makes me the Great, Great Grandma. Sigh. And I don’t use Bloglines either. Happy Father’s Day to your husband!
Ha- well, it definitely isn’t for everyone and I was pretty much wrangled into it, but am still twittering on.
Steph
I don’t Twitter, either. It’s too much like a delayed, widely-broadcast version of ICQ (an instant message thing I used in the days of yore, that may have gone the way of the dinosaur) for me to be interested; My instant messaging days are over. I don’t even send text messages via my cell phone, and that’s the equivalent of shaking a defiant fist at technologically advanced time-wasters.
Besides, Twitter requires good editing — I lack the Concise gene. Obviously.
Heh, never twitted, doubt I ever will. This blogging but it buckets enough wasted time for ME!
I’m with you, totally lost on the Twitting thing. It took me a week to figure out how to post a picture on my blog (yes, I’m *that* slow). Glad to hear I’m not the only one!
ha! i’m with you. i tried for about a day and found it overwhelming. i don’t want to be tied to my computer screen that much. . . nor do i have the time to!
I LOVE LOVE your post - I’m soooo glad I’m not the only one is not following or twitting or whatever it is - I was feeling so dumb and so old!! I guess you still get more point then me because you tried!! I’ll stick with simple blogging and hopefully people will find me. . .:-)
I don’t blame you. Good for you.
Yay!
I don’t Twitter. I never will.
The idea of following people, constantly…ick. I just can’t picturing myself texting people that I just put a pizza in the oven.
Talk about minutia.
Don’t you have to be able to use text messenging or something for twitter? I don’t even have a phone that text messages. Oh, my phone WILL, I just don’t pay for the service. I have enough going on already. And who is going to care, really, about my random thoughts??
I don’t get the twitter thing either…