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I think it’s fair to say that many of us who write our own blogs also
read a lot of blogs. We might also spend a fair amount of time on
twitter. We might also waste a bit of time on facebook. And before we
know it, we might find ourselves wondering how it got to be 1am and we
still haven’t put the dinner dishes away.
And by we, I mean me. I spend entirely too much time online. It's what a call a neutral addiction. It's not hurting anyone - I'm not flying into a drunk rage or throwing my life away or getting arrested. I'm just quietly wasting lots and lots of time. I have a love-hate relationship with social media. It has certainly expanded my worldview and made me feel a part of a broader community of moms. I have never had that sense of isolation as a mom that I heard my mother’s generation talk about. Despite the fact that some days I don’t ever make it out of my pj’s, I still feel like I get to do a little socializing every night on facebook. When my kids go down for a nap, I can catch up on my reader to see what my friends are doing, or relate to an anecdote from someone else in a similar lifestage. I can blog about my struggles with choosing a minivan, or dealing with the school bully, or my inability to remember my assigned snack day in the classroom, and the comments often feel like my very own community of women, propping me up and guiding me along the journey. It's also provided me with an amazing community of adoptive moms, with families that look like mine. I may not see them every day, but I know they are out there, and I get to keep up with them on facebook and twitter.
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September 19 was a dark day for me… but one that I feared would come soon enough. I joined Twitter. This is after years and years of publicly campaigning against it in articles such as “The Problem of Pride in the Age of Twitter” and “Short Attention Span Faith.” And now I am a part of the monster, feeding it like everyone else…
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1. Allows you to follow friends, strangers or celebrities (such as Ashton Kutcher, Britney Spears, Shaquille O’Neal, Stephen Colbert, etc.) on a hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute basis 2. You can build your business, organization or your personal brand by following the right people or just following an ungodly amount of people 3. You can create an identity by posting such profound or awesome tweets that you become a legend in the Twitterverse
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