Moments

During this last mission trip, one of my jobs was to tweet so the people at home would know how we are doing.  Finally, for me anyway, a useful reason to tweet.  I am not a big fan of twitter simply because my life is not that interesting.  There are some people who need to tweet because they have great things to say and share.  There are some who just have fascinating lives and insights to share.  Those people should tweet.  I am not one of those people. But now there was reason to tweet.

Now there was another issue; I thought tweeting was simply sending short text.  At the basic level it is.  No one gave me a class on the topic of tweeting.  The problem is, when someone responds to a tweet, I think only I can see it.  I didn’t know that.  I thought everyone saw what I saw.  Evidently that isn’t the case.

The end result is people would respond to my tweets with questions.  I would then answer their questions with my usual witty repertoire.  The problem is people would understand my great wisdom and hilarity because they couldn’t see the original question.  So I ended up sounding like I was giving inside jokes or I was just in my own little world.

Now my shot at tweeting and showing the world I am not as dull as sandpaper and a part of my life is worth tweeting, has come and gone.  I have proven that a little technology can be a dangerous thing in the hands of some.  So instead of sounding adventurous and exciting, I hear responses like, “You are not as good as Sue at tweeting.”  Duh!

I better stop now.  I have to catch up on her tweets.