I’m on the 5th day of my 40 day fast of Twitter and Facebook. Facebook was becoming something I used less and less so I’m not missing it too much. Twitter, however, I miss a lot. Or at least I do sometimes.
Sometimes, I enjoy the increased time and freedom away from it. I don’t feel like I have to keep up so I don’t miss something. I don’t feel pressure to start a show at its showtime so I can tweet and read relevant responses. My family doesn’t miss me being glued to my phone . I don’t either.
But there are things I miss. I miss sharing great links. I miss sharing funny things my kids say. I miss venting. I miss reading about current events. I miss tweeting about current events. Most of all I miss finding out about everyone’s day. I don’t care what people say, you can find find friends on Twitter and you can keep up with friendships there. And I miss it.
Back on the flip side, the point of it is working. I’ve spent more time studying God’s word and in study materials this week than I have in a long time. It’s been good. I’ll be thinking through how to balance it all in 35 days. But I’m not going to pretend I don’t miss it. Cause I do.
It’s funny, since I joined Twitter in January I’ve spent a lot less time on Facebook! I really only check it for photo albums now! Twitter is fantastic, and I miss your tweets, but you’ll be back before you know it!
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40 days seems like A LOT!
I don’t think I could go that long without either right now, but there are times in life where I hate them both. 🙂
Best of luck on staying AWAY from them, hopefully it does some kind of good for you.
I love that Twitter is a great way to quickly catch up with people but have been finding that I access it less and less lately. I agree about the idea of feeling you might be missing something but I’ve gotten used to only signing once in the evening and not sticking around too long.
You’re already 7 days in…only 33 more to go!
Just wandered on in, and thought this post on the ambivalence of being away from Twitter interesting. I really liked this quote:
“I don’t care what people say, you can find find friends on Twitter and you can keep up with friendships there. And I miss it.”
I don’t know that’s been true in my experience; I found a lot of friendly people on Twitter willing to keep up, but then again, I blogged regularly and they didn’t see fit to say hi there even when I was on Twitter. In my experience, people were more excited about Twitter than anything I had to say, and I’m kinda bitter, because I worked hard to make sure anything they had to say was treated with as much consideration and respect as I could muster, and retweeted often if quotable.
I dunno though. I kinda miss the opportunity of meeting and keeping up with so many: the interaction felt really good. Oh well. I do miss it myself, it was exciting in a lot of ways, and I thought much was being accomplished. I may be back soon myself.
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If they are good, I can take all the credit. ,