Micro v Macro

So. I've hammered home my point about how terrible I am with routine by not blogging on day number TWO. That's right, I lasted one day. However, I'm back on the horse or the wagon (speaking of, we just bought a Subaru Forester which I LOVE) or whatever it is that you say.

Today's quick topic:

I hate Twitter.

Here's the thing. I'm a mildly interesting person. I don't promise to be as interesting as some people but I am probably more interesting than a handful too. Thus mildly interesting. But for Twitter to work, if you are going to update it six or seven times a day or whatever, you better be UNBELIEVABLY interesting. Thus Twitter works well for organizations like the Onion, which can always drop hilarious headlines, really as often as they want and I would always love to read them. In fact, if you do Tweet (which I highly discourage) you'll want to follow the Onion. But this is where the next problem comes in: Even if you are interesting or if you're following interesting people who are updating their Twitters a thousand times a day, the chances are that you are following a hundred people who are not interesting but still insist on updating their Twitters a thousand times a day and if you obsessively check your Twitter (is it so important that I must capitalize it?) six times an hour, your chances of reading one tweet that is hilarious or relevant or at all important is ... well, I'm not fantastic at math, but the chances are not good.

Maybe it would help if I had ADHD. Seriously. Maybe tweeting is for hyperactive brains. And that's fine. In fact, if people start prescribing twitter instead of Ritalin, I will be overjoyed. But for me - it just doesn't work.

They call it MicroBlogging. I guess I would have to fully understand the definition of blogging to be in any place to argue with that sentiment, but I just don't get it. If tweeting is MicroBlogging, I choose MacroBlogging. It seems like blogging should be a place to present ideas and talk about them and I don't know, expand on something. 140 characters does not allow that. It's shorter than a text message. Which is really what tweeting comes down to: Mass text messaging. And I hate mass emails. Seriously. Even when someone picks them specifically for me to read, like it's a forward that they get, but then they think of me and they decide to send it to me - as kind as that is, I rarely read them, because of my rule that mass emails equal dumb.

So mark it down here. First: Luke skipped days two and still by day three didn't really have anything important to say. Second: Twittering takes an EXTREMELY interesting person, for constant updates to be relevant, and I am neither interesting enough or disciplined enough. Three: Out of mostly sheer ignorance, I decide to hate what I do not understand, thus I am a Twitter hater.

If you'd like to follow me, I tweet as AMERICANNOVEL.

And I never update it.

Luke