VonGeekenstein

I talk to a lot of people on any given day, whether in person at work, or through various technological implementations. While back in my day — which was a Tuesday — there were only a couple of methods to communicate with people not in the same room with you…namely the telephone or a written (gasp!) letter, these days we have so many more options. Email, IM, text messaging, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, chat rooms and so much more. I’m finding that, for example, I’m using the actual phone part of my phone so much less and less than texting, instant messaging, email and so on.
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After writing yesterday’s article about being on Facebook more than Twitter, I kinda started feeling bad. Why? Because while a lot of my friends are on Facebook regularly, some of my best friends (you know who you are) are pretty much solely on Twitter, and I’ve kind of fallen out of touch with them as a result. Now, one can (and should) say that one shouldn’t NEED to use Twitter to keep in touch with close friends, but times being as they are, it’s one of the best ways.

That being said, I’ve resolved to try and get a better handle on Twitter in order to keep more in touch with more of the people that mean the most to me. I’m going to start by using solely the lists that I’ve made. Also, if y’all have any suggestions as to a program — like Tweetdeck, but maybe better — to use to monitor Twitter more effectively, I’d love to hear it. Thanks for reading, and I’ll be Tweeting at y’all soon.

So as you may know, I’m something of a social network whore. I’m somewhat addicted to them, because they make it easy to have conversations (or snippets thereof) with many of my closest friends. However, the more I’ve used them, the more I noticed my habits have changed in their use, and I’ve developed a preference. Whereas once I used to be on Twitter most of the time, now I’m on Facebook much more often. Why is that? Well, I’ll tell you…
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We’ve all been there, I’m sure. We get a new game, a new DVD, a new book series, find a new website, what have you, and we get sucked into it, wholly and fully. For a while, we’re totally enamored with this thing, whether it’s a new TV series, a funny website, or a book series. Eventually, however, we all get to a point where we start feeling less enamored with this new thing, this new obsession, so we take one of many different paths. We take a break from it and return later, quit from it outright, or plow through the burnout.
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