No One I Know Is On Twitter
I love the internet. Social Media? Awesome! Blogging? Cool! Micro blogging? Macro spectacular!
Since I started blogging, podcasting, and socializing on the internet, I have made bunches of friends. I keep in touch with them all kinds of ways. I am friends with them on Facebook. I follow their timelines on PLurk. I have ‘friended’ them on Friendfeed, LinkedIn, MySpace… you name it, I am connected there. These are some funny, cool people I’m hooked to on the internet.
I don’t know them in real life. Most of them live far away. Yeah, I’ve connected with a few. I started a podcast with one, and another I met through voice mails on the Dawn and Drew podcast. But for the mst part, my internet life and my real life are separate. That is both by design and by nature. I have a few friends who are social media/ internet geeks, but they are not many in number. They do Facebook, and have a blog or two, but they are not on Twitter. (One of them likes using Yahoo Groups. I’ll never get that.)
My colleagues at work? I don’t bring it up. For me, I can’t really dig the folks at work getting that much information on me. Even former colleagues aren’t so knowing when it comes to my internet life. A few follow me on Facebook, but the number is in the single digits.
My other real-world friends? I don’t ask them to follow me on the internet. I don’t tell them about my blogs. I don’t tell them about Twitter. For some reason, I like to keep these lives separate. Maybe I’m someone else on the internet, and I’m afraid my real-life friends will catch on.
