Come to the dark side...
...we have Twitter.
I find myself more and more drawn to Twitter, and it feels... dirty. But the ease of updating from a phone, and the lack of pressure to write anything profound... well, it's a powerful thing. Like this morning - the only things I have to say are that I don't want to be at work and my mini-fridge smells strongly of strawberries. Hardly LJ-post worthy, but an average Tweet. Of course, there are plenty of things you can't Tweet - like my post with the crochet pattern. So I'm not saying I'm abandoning LJ (I just renewed my paid account!), but during the day I see myself reading LJ and Tweeting, then updating/commenting on LJ from home.
I do have one question for y'all about Twitter - when you Tweet, it puts your username first. Do you treat this as the beginning of the sentence or do you look at it as if it were a script and there's an implied colon? Basically, are you a first-person Tweeter or a third-person Tweeter?
Smeddley does not want to be at work today.
vs.
Smeddley: I don't want to be at work today.
I find myself more and more drawn to Twitter, and it feels... dirty. But the ease of updating from a phone, and the lack of pressure to write anything profound... well, it's a powerful thing. Like this morning - the only things I have to say are that I don't want to be at work and my mini-fridge smells strongly of strawberries. Hardly LJ-post worthy, but an average Tweet. Of course, there are plenty of things you can't Tweet - like my post with the crochet pattern. So I'm not saying I'm abandoning LJ (I just renewed my paid account!), but during the day I see myself reading LJ and Tweeting, then updating/commenting on LJ from home.
I do have one question for y'all about Twitter - when you Tweet, it puts your username first. Do you treat this as the beginning of the sentence or do you look at it as if it were a script and there's an implied colon? Basically, are you a first-person Tweeter or a third-person Tweeter?
Smeddley does not want to be at work today.
vs.
Smeddley: I don't want to be at work today.
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I hadn't really thought about the Tweets other than the 'I am' - even though I've made them - so that's another good point. Sure, you could switch back and forth, but better to be consistant.
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