I don’t know if you’ve heard… but the new thing is Twitter. My oh-so-up-to-date hubby introduced me to it… keeping me young and hip. Let me tell you, though, that I specifically ordered my own personal Rolodex to keep up with personal and business contact information at the office. I have a Georgia O’Keefe engagement calendar that I carry around with all my appointments and special dates and it probably adds about 5 pounds to my purse. I have post-it notes pasted all around my cubicle to remind me of payments due, people to call back, and whatever else on my mind. Tony keeps trying to get me to use google for all my calendaring and contact needs along with Word, Excel, etc. so that I can access files from anywhere, but I’m a little attached to the old school ways. So as you can see, keeping up with the latest technology thing isn’t quite priority.

Anyways… Twitter allows you to post whatever you happen to be doing at the moment… eating a sandwich, going to training, mowing the grass, just killed a spider in the car, or some short profound thought. The point is to be short… it even has a limit to the number of letters/characters you can use. You sign up to follow people, and their updates are not only posted on your Twitter page, but you also have the option of having all their updates sent to your phone. That way, you can immediately update as many friends who choose to follow you of all your mundane tasks and random thoughts throughout the day. Tony first signed up right before he went to California to be with family and I signed up to have updates sent to my phone through a text message. I was always aware of all his comings and goings… but I had to tell him that Twitter updates couldn’t replace personal calls from him to me… I mean, I’m his wife, not just oONE of 20 people choosing to follow him.  He assured me that there is even a way to send personal messages - however that works.  I’m not sure how I feel about the whole idea yet… part of me thinks that it’s just one more way of becoming more and more impersonal - it’s a mass update, not person to person.  Between email, texting, MySpace messages and bullitens, Facebook, and now Twitter… why would we ever pick up the phone to hear someone’s voice and know their feelings?  Hmmm… We’ll see…

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