A few months ago, I posted about how I was really on the fence about Facebook, but a few weeks ago I finally signed up and started using it. I have a similar dilemma about Twitter—I signed up yesterday, but I have no idea what to do with it.
Someone sent me an e-mail asking me to give them my Twitter handle because they want to know what I am doing. I thought about explaining that I don’t do Twitter but decided instead to sign up and see what it’s all about. (I keep telling people to experiment, so I need to take my own medicine sometimes.)
I’m not sure what I can do with Twitter that I couldn’t do by updating my Facebook status (which I haven’t bothered doing yet), but I have a more fundamental confusion about this. I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would want to know what I am doing. I mean, so far my status has told people that I am writing an article, that I was at my daughter’s high school, and at IBM Research for some meetings. Geez, I bore myself with that kind of stuff—who could want to know that about me?
But I’m going to give it a try. I’ll spend the next couple of weeks updating my wherabouts and maybe I will figure it out. (Or maybe one of you will have mercy and tell me.) If you want to follow me, my Twitter handle is MikeMoran. But I’d love to know why you’d want to follow me. I gotta admit, I don’t think I will be following you.
