What the @#?!

I’ve tried. I really have. I have ploughed myself through dozens of tweets several times a day for the past couple of weeks; I have clicked on many (interesting) links provided in these tweets; I have even figured out what to do with these two: @ #. But I can’t escape the truth any longer: Twittering is just not for me.

What I feared would happen when I first signed-up for a Twitter account has inevitably happened.  I’ve spent hours (well, minutes at least) staring at my Twitter page, trying to figure out what to say to the world. Because that’s what Twitter is all about, right? It’s my medium for telling the world about my life, and how interesting and fun it is. Well, turns out my life just isn’t that interesting. Not for other people at least. Sure, I could tell you about how my train was delayed (again…), how busy I am with schoolwork, or how I had a great dinner with my friends (thanks to #appie), but would you really want to know? I know I wouldn’t.

So I have kind of given up on my goal to post at least one tweet per day and it’s quite a load off my mind. It’s weird actually, how easily you get drawn into the whole thing. Seeing all these people post new tweets every hour made me feel like I had to do so as well. How else would I keep my followers interested so they wouldn’t click the infamous “unfollow” button? This Twittermania has even led me to neglect my Facebook-account: there’s no way I have time to do both. But I have now come to the resolution that I’ll post something when and because I want to, not because I feel like I have to. It’s time to let the peer-pressure slide off me and spend just a little less time worrying about my online contacts and just a little more time with my offline contacts. It’s time to talk with people instead of to people. It’s time to be social again.

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See you soon!

Sandra