twitter quitter.

I fell for the hype...I joined twitter.

I was sitting around this weekend chatting with some of my girls about who knows what, when the conversation switched to twitter. I was the only one not on it. And everyone kept talking about how funny this person is, and how interesting that one is. I kept saying no it's not for me, but the pure nosiness/curiosity and peer pressure got to me....I joined twitter the next day.

After about 18 hours on twitter I was frustrated...here are my thoughts about it.

1. I just don't get it.
2. Celebrities you "follow" are lame. Example - I love Erykah Badu, but she's in complete left field all day long. She "tweets" about the "twitty milk" she's breast feeding her baby, and writes like "c u nxt lyftym". By the time I could decipher what she was writing, she'd already written her next message about "Or4nj m00hns".
3. Twitter only seems fun if you're in a club, or some completely awkward/comical situation. I'm sure no one wants to read "tweets" about my buzzing air-conditioner, keyboard clicking, or Mary's phone conversations.
4. It would have been useful yesterday at my part time job to tweet about the stolen shoes, rats in the trash room, or the mall security guards who can sniff out new mall employees like raw meat.
5. Just like I wonder how people check fb/update statuses all day, I feel the same way about twitter.
6. Who has time for this? If my life was that interesting, wouldn't I have a reality show, or even friends in real life who would either experience with me or know about the interesting aspects of my life?
7. I managed to piss off a lot of people bc Twitter tricks you into scanning your email contacts and sending them all requests to join….well when you have 764 contacts, that’s not really the business.
8. I sent 764 emails apologizing for the twitter mishap.
9. Following the apology emails, I got a million emails from people asking how I am? How is work? How is life? Where am I? I thought to myself…damn, maybe you should join twitter to know my whereabouts. Lol.
10. The scanning fiasco opened up the door for a guy I used to date and have been “hiding from for 2 years (lol)” to “follow me” on twitter.
11. I wish I just stuck to my first mind and reminded myself that I thought twitter was pointless.
12. After 36 hours, I’m quitting twitter.

Death of @dominiquecc: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:14am