Twitter Made Me Lazier
Hannah complained to me about not updating my blog. It’s true, my muse has been sucked dry. There are a couple possible reasons:
- I have started a couple of mini projects and hobbies:
For example, I began to relearn Japanese again through JapanesePod101 and iKnow.This project was killed due to time constraints.- I started exercising again.
- I’m trying to read the New Testament 10 times in this year or two.
- I’m getting into skeet shooting (or shooting in general).
- I recently got married and moved to a new apartment. This left me no time to do anything. It also left my life in a total disarry. I have to reorganize my life due to these events.
- I’ve gotten lazy about writing my blog because of Twitter.
I think the main reason is because of the last reason. Twitter is the best thing in the world. All I need is 140 characters to let out my thoughts; then I’m done.
Writing a blog takes too much work. It involves too many steps.
- I have to think of a topic to write about.
- I write the post, and it can’t be only 140 characters long.
- Then I have to take the time to proof read and edit it. Yeah–I actually do this even though some of my sentences looks like it’s been written by a fobby Korean high school student.
- Check it one more time and publish.
In Twitter, I just have to write 1-2 sentences and I’m done. No need to proof read. It’s so simple. But since Hannah started her nagging wife phase, I guess I’ll try to update this blog more often.
Yay! More blog posts… that’s good! I know that Twitter has been growing in popularity (in fact, there was a huge write-up about it in this week’s Business Week), but I still don’t see what is so great about it. Yet. Maybe I should follow you on it and read all of your great thoughts…
Naomi
11 Mar 09 at 8:38 pm
Well “web marketers” use Twitter for blog spam. That’s the one reason it’s getting appeal.
Jang
11 Mar 09 at 10:25 pm
My current excuse for not updating my blog is Yelp! I thought for sure you would be signed up for that already but oh no, I couldn’t find you on there…
Amy
16 Mar 09 at 9:18 pm
I have a Kudzu account. I should get a Yelp account… Although I thought I had one already. I use Yelp a lot to find good restaurants.
Jang
16 Mar 09 at 9:47 pm
Twitter is the blogging what email is to letter writing.
Just like sending an email is so much faster and easier leaving a quick statement on Twitter is similar. There’s very little pressure to have a full story versus a quick thought.
That’s how I feel about email. It’s so much easier to throw down a few sentences than write a full letter. I’m guilty of both and I try to use Twitter as a writing exercise to help with my blogging.
But it is difficult to keep up, as you know.
cardiogirl
5 Apr 09 at 4:56 am
GRR!! Should be Twitter is TO blogging LIKE email is to letter writing.
cardiogirl
5 Apr 09 at 4:57 am