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Mar 19, 2013

Excuse me sir, Do you Tweet?

With the whole emergence of social media years ago and the exodus from blogging to social platforms I was skeptical. I mean I always figured that if everyone was doing it then if probably wasn't of God and for the most part I sorta still believe that. So for that reason I was very slow to check out Facebook and Twitter.

When we returned to Croatia and left Cody in the States I signed up for Facebook so I could keep up with Cody and see photos of the parts of his life I was missing. After becoming totally enveloped in Facebook and finding out far more about my friends than I wanted to know I eventually gave it up, albeit difficult. Oh yea and by then Cody had stopped posting anything on FB.

I tried Twitter but totally couldn't understand the whole premise of the thing and so I left Twitville. The other night I'm lying in bed next to Johnny and he's messaging Cody back and forth on Twitter. WHAT? He was talking to my kid! I totally wanted some of that. Now, while I'm still a Tweeter in training I'm officially tweeting my little head off. I still don't understand how it all works but I'm giving it a try. I talked to my kid last night and told him that I couldn't wait to see him via Twitter. So it's sorta useful.

The thing I like about Twitter that I didn't like about FB was that it's not as interactive. I can't go and spend time looking at someone else's business. Okay to a degree but it's not the same at least that's where I'm sitting at the moment.

So while we still have a FB page for our family that folks can LIKE and get updates I don't have a personal FB page anymore but I do have a Twitter page! The truth of the matter and this post is that I'm friendless. Yes, friendless I tell you. I'm on Twitter and I have very few friends. So if you're on Twitter, I wanna be friends. So let me know your handle or user or whatever it's called and we can be buddies.

APOLOGY: Sorry for the shameless plug for Twitter friends. I'm ashamed! No, I'm not really!

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5 comments:

  1. I still don't completely understand twitter :S

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  2. Anonymous5:53 AM

    I have to admit that I don't understand Twitter at all...I've been giving FB another try and on the one hand I really like that I'm interacting with some family that we don't normally have much interaction with. But I grow weary of reading everyone's status updates, political updates etc...

    And I completely know what you mean about learning too much about your friends. That part was REALLY hard.

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    1. Keeping in touch with family was one of the benefits of FB for me but the negatives outweighed the positives. Also when old boyfriends started contacting me it became a bit too much. The truth is FB only lessened the quality of my Christian walk even though it had its perks.

      Btw, so glad I found your sweet blog.

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    2. Anonymous5:38 PM

      Oh my! Yes I can see how upsetting it would be to be contacted by old boyfriends. I have my FB privacy settings pretty much on lock-down, LOL. And I don't have my maiden name on it so that has helped quite a bit. But I can relate to what you said about it affecting your Christian walk too.

      And thanks for visiting my blog and for the sweet comment that you left. I wasn't sure if you knew it or not, but I am "Mrs. B". I switched to using my first name and have changed my blog name several times. I guess after blogging for 7 years I change things up to keep it fresh. It was nice to visit here again and I'm very glad that you're back to blogging. I'll be back! :)

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  3. I don't understand Twitter, either... makes me feel old to admit that, LOL! I hope you get more friends from your shameless plug lol. :P

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