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At the recommendation of my friend, Randy Elrod<\/a>, I decided to start \u201ctwittering.\u201d I have now been engaging in the practice for about a week.<\/p>\n

\"Twitter<\/p>\n

What is twittering? Twitter\u2019s home page<\/a> says it best:<\/p>\n

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co\u2013workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Twittering (who knew that was a verb, let alone a gerund?!) requires very little time. For starters, you can only enter 140 characters at a time. This means that you must post very short, direct-to-the-point messages. In practice, this means that, as a twitterer (who knew that was a noun?!), you update several times a day, but it takes almost no time at all. I do most of it from my iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what's the advantage? So far, I think there are four:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. It allows family, friends, and others to follow your activity throughout the day and keep up with your life. You can even get these updates via your cell phone, as a text message. It's kind of like the Truman Show meets instant messaging.<\/li>\n
  2. It allows you to meet new friends, who tend to be on the cutting edge of technology. I am following several people that I would have never met otherwise. These are relationships\u2014or potential relationships\u2014that may prove very fruitful for the future. We\u2019ll see.<\/li>\n
  3. It allows me to experience first-hand a new technology that almost 1 million people<\/a> are using. It may be a complete waste of time but it is free and the investment of time is miniscule.<\/li>\n
  4. It allows me to think consciously about my life. What am I doing now?<\/em> What kind of story is my life telling? Is this really what I want to be doing? Could I\u2014should I\u2014be choosing something different?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I don\u2019t know if twittering will become a long-term habit. Knowing me, I will eventually get bored with it. But, for now, I am enjoying the experience. I have committed to trying it for 30 days.<\/p>\n

    If you want to \u201cfollow me,\u201d you can do do my joining Twitter.com<\/a> and officially following me<\/a>. Just sign up and follow the directions. It\u2019s pretty simple.<\/p>\n

    Question: So are you ready to give it a try?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Twitter\u2019s home page says it best: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co\u2013workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? … So far, I think there are four: It allows family, friends, and others to follow your activity throughout the day and keep up with your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[655],"tags":[949,263,1663,662],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTwitter-dee, Twitter-dum | Full Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/twitter-dee-twitter-dum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twitter-dee, Twitter-dum | Full Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twitter\u2019s home page says it best: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co\u2013workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? ... 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