long time, no see, oh blog of mine. time, it does fly. and its got huge wings. good when you’re in a meeting that is slowly draining the life out of you. not so good when you’re trying like hell to retain a fairly wrinkle-free face.
sadly, in the last few weeks there has been little to report. i’ve been knee deep in a huge project at work and it has left me little to no time to enjoy life outside of my work cube. priorities will shift soon. at least that’s my hope.
during my free time now (whatever i actually get), i find myself updating or checking facebook, twitter and blogs. it’s becoming a full time job. i’m not sure i can keep up. in the beginning, i got on facebook to reconnect. it seemed brilliant compared to myspace, which i hated and never took part in. plus, i totally dug the idea of statuses. then came the blog. then, one night while in my hotel room in sf, i caught a bit of a conversation at the commerce club between someone and the creator of twitter. i had heard of twitter and was somewhat interested, but after listening to him talk about the world and its social behavior (and how twitter fit in to all that), i caved and created an account.
i’ve been frustrated with it ever since. reasons, you ask?
-a good chunk of people tweet every 5 minutes about stupid stuff. and i mean stupid.
-because of the above, it takes me 10 minutes just to catch up with everyone’s updates every time i log in. i don’t have that kind of time to kill.
-the ui is not that great if you ask me. sure it’s somewhat simple to use, but it’s so basic, it almost hurts.
-the twitspeak. it’s ridiculous. everyone now speaks in twitter language. “i just tweeted my tweeterific tweeter friend and he tweeted me back that he was going to send me a twitpic and retweet my friend joe’s earlier tweet about the popularity of twitter”.
-don’t get me started on the celebrities and the all out media blitz.
now in all fairness, i still have the account after 5 months and i still update and look at it almost everyday, but i think it’s basically because of my interest in seeing what it’s becoming. also, i feel like if i don’t, i’ll be left in the tech dust. seriously.
recently, currenttv took up the cause and created a short about the twouble with tweeter. dead. on. enjoy friends and i'll see you on facebook. or twitter. or the blog. ah, hell.
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