Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Twittering
The Twitter bandwagon has gained another passenger - me. When I first heard about Twitter, I thought I'd never use it. I figured it was more geared to kids with fancy mobile devices than to a middle-aged gardener who has to pay for each text message on her cell phone. But things change. I was sitting on the porch yesterday watching the rain and thinking I wonder when the last good rain was. If I had written it in my garden journal, I'd know. But the garden journal is in the bottom of my bag, where it's been for a week at least. Despite all my good intentions, I don't write in it as much as I think I should. I thought this blog was my garden journal, but it doesn't feel like the proper place any more to record that I saw Monarch butterflies yesterday (or any other small thing I'd like to remember).
So anyway, I was sitting on the porch watching the rain, debating with myself whether Twitter is worthwhile and suddenly it hit me. What if somebody else grabs my username while I'm making up my mind? I am Entangled. I must sign up Right Now. Too late. Some other twit is already calling himself Entangled. So as far as Twitter is concerned, I'm tangledbranches.
We'll see how this all works out. I'm still a little skeptical, but I intend to use it as a way to jot down some mostly-garden-related things on my mind that don't merit a blog post and never make it into the handwritten garden journal.
Labels: networking
7 Comments:
It was similarly shocking to find that Annieinaustin wasn't already gone from Twitter. You are the only Entangled as far as I'm concerned ;-]
The genealogy find is cool - so many times I think there's nowhere to go and a surprise pops up.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Welcome to the wacky world of twittering. I'm on twitter too but must admit that I havent twittered in a looooooong time. Perhaps I'm all twittered out? ;-)
Annie: I think there should be some universal username registry - then we wouldn't have this problem ;-)
It's strange how my genealogy web pages lie dormant for a long time, and then all of a sudden I'll have a flurry of communication. I never cease to be amazed at how many relatives I have.
Yolanda: I didn't know you were on Twitter! I'll put you on my "following" list in case you ever twitter again. Maybe when the weather turns cold?
Plurking is fun, too!
Gail
Gail: Do you think I should do both? I'm still learning my way with Twitter...
Your visit with Layanee sounded delightful, BTW!
E,
I don't know what Twitter is like! But Plurk is very easy for me to manage...it pops up on my computer screen, I see all the conversations of friends and can add to any I want. Twittering or plurking on a mobile device would not be what I would want to do! Screens are too small.
Gail
Gail: Twitter is fairly easy to use, at least on the computer. I'm a total klutz at texting on the cell phone - won't be doing that very often. I'll look into Plurk.
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