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Friday, November 20, 2009

#twitterfail

I've had a bunch of email to sort through. No surprise there, since I haven't kept up with it during the same time period I wasn't keeping up with the blog. What did surprise me was that I had a bunch of messages in my inbox telling me so-and-so is following me on Twitter.

Huh?

This is very strange because I didn't even know I was on Twitter. So I pull up the site to investigate. The logon is staring me in the face and I don't know how to get in. It asks for an email or username, so I type in my email, then I hit the forgot? button beside the password box. They email instructions on how to change my password, and I'm in. Lo and behold, a page opens with my name on it. But that's all there is, a name, no profile info, no photo, nothing... except a list of eleven followers. Only one of the names was familiar. The rest, I don't know from Adam.

So now I'm left with the mystery of how I ended up on Twitter. I decided a long time ago I wasn't fooling with another online time suck. I took a look at it once. At least, I tried to, back when the infamous #queryfail thing was going on. I couldn't make heads or tails of anything and decided on the spot I wasn't going to waste time trying to figure it out. Facebook, same thing. I made myself a page but can't see any point to it. Geez. There are only so many hours in the day and with all the time everyone spends online, I don't see how any books at all get written. Another mystery.

On a more pleasant note, I've had a terrific day. My son had a couple days off from work so he came down to visit. This morning, he stayed here with his sister so hubby and I could go do a little Christmas shopping. We had a nice time. Then, this evening, I was so jazzed, I called a writer friend and we brainstormed over the phone for more than an hour. All in all, it was a productive day.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Devon

4 comments:

  1. Online time suck? You mean there is such a thing? *gasp*

    I'm glad you had a nice day!

    :)

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  2. Thsnks, Mags. It WAS a nice day. Hope you're having a good weekend! :o)

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  3. Glad you had a chance to get out of the house. Hope you enjoyed it and got some stuff done. As for Twitter, maybe you signed up to follow somebody, then just didn't create a profile.

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  4. Hey, Jennifer. Thanks! It was nice to get out of the house for a while. Improved my outlook a lot. We always try to get out early to track down my daughter's Xmas toys. She only likes those with the buttons on them that play music. Sometimes hard to find around here.

    I think I inadvertantly signed on to Twitter when I was trying to look at the queryfail brewhaha.

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