Now on Twitter

I'm brand new to Twitter, alongside being new to blogging. Wow, what a world. It is so easy to fill your time with blabber. I mean, it's not like everything I say is deep and meaningful. But really, this?

I posted a question and asked for some advice. By morning, my notifications had about 15 tweets listed. Yay! Then I read them. Two people gave advice. Many retweeted or liked my question. Some liked the replies. But for three screens worth of responses, only two people said anything. What's that about?

And why does everyone agree so vehemently with each other? Posts with replies are usually full of "Oh my god, yes!" "That is SO TRUE!" etc. And then there are so many of them, the list goes on. Do you really read through all those yesses? Maybe there is some interesting insight hidden in reply 13 out of 24, but you'd need to read through all 24 to even know. Ugh.

And I am having a really hard time getting my thoughts into one little tweet! I include nuance, and nuance takes space. Sure, I know about the six-word biography. "For sale: Baby shoes, never worn." Yes, some genius can write six words and express a whole world of emotion and thought. But I need a full-on paragraph, sometimes even two, to say anything worth saying. When those characters turn red and twitter says, "You can talk, but now you've talked too much, this part needs to go!" I feel like I must have done something wrong. (Yes, reply to your own post, post two in a row, I get it. But the red highlighter still freaks me out.) Will I end up using that crazy short millennial speak? U goin to Ss hous 2night? Will I just start leaving out "that" and "the"? How will this impact me over the years?

And yet, this combo of blogging and tweeting is interesting. I realized when I signed up for twitter that I'd need a place to write actual thoughts, hence the blog. Lots of people seem to do the same. I write out my thought in this blog as if a) they matter, b) people care, and c) it will be read one day. Then, I go to twitter and reply to others' posts as if a) I know what I'm talking about and b) they will listen to me. And I see others replying to my tweets, so I know for sure that people are reading them. Wow, that's is heady stuff, a big ego-changer.