Comments on: The Real Reason Why I Don’t Twitter

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:21:00 +0000

Lori,

I resisted twitter for a long time too, for the same reason. I have an addictive personality. AND I have an iphone. Dangerous combination. ;-)

But I've gotten more new business via twitter than I know what to do with. So I'm not complaining. :-)

By: Willie

Willie — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Thanks to Facebook

By: mariaschneider2002

mariaschneider2002 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:03:00 +0000

Hi Lori and thanks for the link. I agree that if you tend to get a little too enamored of social networking sites, Twitter can be a tough habit to break. But I do think it’s the best way right now to get traffic to your blog. My blog traffic has gone way up since I started Twittering.
Maria Schneider

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:41:00 +0000

Georganna, you sound like my better half, who won’t own a cell phone because he simply does not want to complicate his life with one more gadget. The bread machine I bought him nearly put him over the edge. 😉

By: Georganna Hancock M.S.

Georganna Hancock M.S. — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:36:00 +0000

No twit here, either, Lori. No iPhone either. Or Ipod, ever! Or even a cell phone. I like to save my techiness to apply to writing and my blog.

After years of dragging my feet, I finally joined LinkedIn, and I still haven't figured it out!

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Wow! Never realized this topic would be so popular!

Devon - I agree. 100 percent. This blog sucks enough of my time. I barely have time to check Entrecard (though it has driven lots of traffic here and I've found some new favorites by dropping).

Kimberly, you've just landed on exactly why I can't be trusted to Twitter. :)

Angie, I have Entrecard to thank for finding you, I believe. :) I agree. Too little time to devote to it.

Amen, Carrie. :)

Amie, I was like that with Polyvore (which is too much fun - stay away!). Luckily, I became too busy to go there. It's no longer an addiction. :)

Interesting thought, Joan. What I love is that the newest SN site is always touted as the BEST. I stick with LinkedIn for professional stuff, Facebook for fun, and Entrecard to drive traffic and find new blog favorites.

Amen, Desiree. Blogging is much more personal, isn't it?

Susan, your experiences are exactly why I feel conflicted in rejecting Twitter sight unseen. I'll peek, how about that? ;)

By: Susan Johnston

Susan Johnston — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:02:00 +0000

I was hesitant about joining Twitter, but I’m really enjoying it. I can have virtual officemates when I want them and focus when I don’t. The nice thing is that with so much going on, you aren’t expected to keep up with everything. So I don’t even try. I’ve already found an expert source for a last minute article through Twitter, and I see the potential to do a lot more with it assuming I don’t let the idle chatter get in the way.

By: Désirée

Désirée — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:55:00 +0000

Bloggin has helped a lot. It feels like the whole world is watching so I have to make progress 🙂

Twitter… I don’t get it. Not yet. Too much junk. I’m not realy interested in what people say there.

By: Sling Words aka Joan Reeves

Sling Words aka Joan Reeves — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:45:00 +0000

I kind of wish they enact a moratorium on new social networking sites. I don’t Twitter because of their TofS. Yet, all I can say each time I think of the hundreds of SNS is: Who has the time?

By: writtenexpressions

writtenexpressions — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:32:00 +0000

I joined FaceBook a few months ago, and like you I was overly-addicted. But as the “newness” wore off, I checked it less and less. Now I check when I truly have free time, and I usually ignore the pokes and other requests. I will NOT Twitter, however. Nobody needs or cares to know what I’m doing all the time, and most of my tweets or twits or whatever would probably read “Amie is sitting at her computer.”