I run into this problem all the time lately, especially when I was explaining how the heck I met Damon before meeting him in Seattle. "Perpetual Facebook status updates" has worked for people who are on Facebook, but for others I've stuck with "It's a website where you post little notes about what you're doing now like drinking coffee." Sadly, neither explanation really gets across the full networking idea of Twitter, but one day at a time.
Some people I follow seem to get all of their offline friends to signup, but I've seen others do that and they end up tweeting to a lot of empty air as their friends don't tweet/pownce and don't check the site again. I'd rather meet new people via Twitter and maintain my old relationships as they were (which worked just fine!).
Sheila at Family Travel
· 2 years ago
Yeah, so true, I get some strange looks when I just talk about blogging, to say nothing of Twitter!
I think it was Chris Brogan who wrote that instead of answering the canned Twitter question, "What are you doing now?" it's better to tweet about "What's on your mind right now?"
Depending on which crowd I'm with, I'm either hopelessly retro/vintage or the most wild-eyed, bleeding-edge techie in the world. The key thing is to keep moving around in different crowds so I never forget that I'm confused. :)
PurpleCar
· 2 years ago
Ha! Funny. I actually NEVER talk about web stuff to anyone unless I've determined they are plugged in to the collective. Otherwise, I don't tell them I blog, I don't tell them the use of owning multiple email addresses, I wouldn't even imagine telling them about social media, etc. Of course, this leads me to feel like I'm a fragged harddrive most of the time, but the suburban mommies around here already think I'm geeky-beyond-reach. Best to lay low and connect with the meat people in a different way. Is this bad? Should I be a social media evangelist?
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Some people I follow seem to get all of their offline friends to signup, but I've seen others do that and they end up tweeting to a lot of empty air as their friends don't tweet/pownce and don't check the site again. I'd rather meet new people via Twitter and maintain my old relationships as they were (which worked just fine!).
I think it was Chris Brogan who wrote that instead of answering the canned Twitter question, "What are you doing now?" it's better to tweet about "What's on your mind right now?"
Depending on which crowd I'm with, I'm either hopelessly retro/vintage or the most wild-eyed, bleeding-edge techie in the world. The key thing is to keep moving around in different crowds so I never forget that I'm confused. :)