I've avoided things like Myspace and Facebook all this time, and now Twitter. I'm happy to say I've kept my life quite simple by not signing up to things like that.
I have a hard enough time having quiet, alone time where I'm not in front of the computer or in front of a t.v. as it is.
I need to read books more!!
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08-20-2010, 03:19 PM #1
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08-20-2010, 04:52 PM #2
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I have a friend who tweets when she's going out for a long ride and when she gets back. She doesn't have family in town and I like knowing that she's gotten back safely. She also tweeted every day that she was on RAGBRAI. It was cool to see her pictures and get little snippets of trivia about the ride.
We don't follow people who tweet about what they are doing every 15 minutes.
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08-20-2010, 05:27 PM #3
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Based on what you said Veronica, then you do get other people's tweets in your email basket because you have allowed email access to your twitter ID by others to send email to you.
Otherwise one could just look at friend's twitter public page to see her tweets about her trip.
Badger, I'm slowly reading 2 books ..and savouring them. Both about the northwest coast, blend of travel and wildlife observation. So non-techie incommunicado-oriented.
After all, I'm the person that doesn't have a cell phone but aware we have to make our blogs mobile user-friendly...
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08-20-2010, 05:34 PM #4
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I don't get the tweets in my e mail. I go to a web site to look at them. Non public tweets come to us and we get notified when someone starts following us via e mail.
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08-20-2010, 05:59 PM #5
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I thought about signing up for Twitter for birdwatching -- a lot of info is shared that way. A couple of bloggers that I follow tweet when they update.
But I decided to do things the old-fashioned way for now. Bookmarking and checking occasionally is not that hard. Come to think of it, I need to ask the bird bloggers how many Twitter followers they have ended up with.
Some of the regular birders talked about tweeting while we are in the park, but for now my pals are just texting. I like to keep my life simple, and I seriously don't want to deal with random people wanting to "friend" me.
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