Yes, I just went ahead and deactivated the Twitter feed as I suggested that I might.
I had thrown some general, open-ended questions out there to maybe drive a little discussion. Nothing. The birds are still chirping.
I don't want to just be known for what interesting information I can come up and publish. I've actually felt that for a long time.
While I might be a very simple person, if people can't make an effort to relate on more than that then maybe there are some situations with particular people that need reconsideration.
I guess I just didn't recall signing up to be in a fishbowl, and, at the same time, I wasn't comfortable with people just lurking out there and me knowing who they are. Like I said, I normally didn't look to see who was following me, but the last couple of additions left me rattled a little bit.
I could have "bumped" them off, but that just starts all kinds of talk about me - which is something I don't want.
Even though my Facebook page and Twitter account is wide-open, if somebody is going to check it out without engaging me, don't friend or follow me. Please, that is.
It is all tempered, I believe, by a bad situation where it seemed that somebody was quietly and closely watching my status updates. Especially when I received a note that said, "I was just worried about you, and missed reading your posts on FB." Then, and in the end, they never really engaged much to a level of friendship beyond that.
And it isn't something that I want to invest energy into again and have similar results.
Maybe a flawed approach, but it is safer - emotionally - to find something - as opposed to somebody - to throw myself into then as opposed to trying to deal with people that can't or won't engage.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Facebook vs. Twitter; March 4, 2013
“Facebook is where you find the people you know. Twitter is where you find the people you should know.”
I heard this said – or something very similar – this past Saturday afternoon.
Or rather put, the latter may also be – as I read in an article where I found that quote above – “to follow people you find interesting or have the same interests as you”.
There was a time, under another handle (my original @walksports), that I used it to “anonymously” vent to respond to and deal with some hurts that I believed had been levied against me.
That was, of course, a major, major mistake.
Now I do much, much less of that, because the individuals who caused the hurt have gone away, but it still makes me curious why people choose to follow me there.
I guess the reason that I’m even writing about this is because somebody that I know in person – but not too well – started to follow me on Twitter Sunday evening (after being around them in person two consecutive days a little bit more than before), but did not send a friend request on Facebook (which is really OK).
And it was that same person, when speaking directly to somebody that I consider a friend, who referred to the quote above.
So is it that you can look inside somebody’s fishbowl on Twitter and not become emotionally attached, but with Facebook it is as if you’re addicted – hanging on their every movement?
Well, maybe not that involved, but you get the idea of the difference between the two.
I kind of know, and this is what the article states, pretty much everyone that is a Facebook friend, but I’d have to look and really see who was following me on Twitter. The only way I even know sometimes is if I go to the associated e-mail account to see who states that they are starting to follow me. That is actually how I discovered this individual.
I guess I feel like I’m auditioning to be a friend to this individual, which is a bit odd.
I hope I don’t scare them off.
Why? Because I’m actually a little bit more raw – and random – in Twitter. If I see a funny license plate, I’ll tweet it. Or a church sign with a funny or thought-provoking message.
My Facebook is just as open, though, as Twitter is. (In fact, some of my Facebook statuses flow right over to Twitter.) There might be 1 in 1,000 status updates, etc. that is hidden to “friends” or “friends of friends”.
In closing, I will say this about Twitter: I typically get more useful information from Twitter than I do Facebook these days, but it seems I follow much more on Twitter and therefore don’t get to everything that I want to see.
And the things that I post there are more flippant whereas I post with intention on Facebook.
I heard this said – or something very similar – this past Saturday afternoon.
Or rather put, the latter may also be – as I read in an article where I found that quote above – “to follow people you find interesting or have the same interests as you”.
There was a time, under another handle (my original @walksports), that I used it to “anonymously” vent to respond to and deal with some hurts that I believed had been levied against me.
That was, of course, a major, major mistake.
Now I do much, much less of that, because the individuals who caused the hurt have gone away, but it still makes me curious why people choose to follow me there.
I guess the reason that I’m even writing about this is because somebody that I know in person – but not too well – started to follow me on Twitter Sunday evening (after being around them in person two consecutive days a little bit more than before), but did not send a friend request on Facebook (which is really OK).
And it was that same person, when speaking directly to somebody that I consider a friend, who referred to the quote above.
So is it that you can look inside somebody’s fishbowl on Twitter and not become emotionally attached, but with Facebook it is as if you’re addicted – hanging on their every movement?
Well, maybe not that involved, but you get the idea of the difference between the two.
I kind of know, and this is what the article states, pretty much everyone that is a Facebook friend, but I’d have to look and really see who was following me on Twitter. The only way I even know sometimes is if I go to the associated e-mail account to see who states that they are starting to follow me. That is actually how I discovered this individual.
I guess I feel like I’m auditioning to be a friend to this individual, which is a bit odd.
I hope I don’t scare them off.
Why? Because I’m actually a little bit more raw – and random – in Twitter. If I see a funny license plate, I’ll tweet it. Or a church sign with a funny or thought-provoking message.
My Facebook is just as open, though, as Twitter is. (In fact, some of my Facebook statuses flow right over to Twitter.) There might be 1 in 1,000 status updates, etc. that is hidden to “friends” or “friends of friends”.
In closing, I will say this about Twitter: I typically get more useful information from Twitter than I do Facebook these days, but it seems I follow much more on Twitter and therefore don’t get to everything that I want to see.
And the things that I post there are more flippant whereas I post with intention on Facebook.
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