I don’t understand this Twitter thing,” a friend of mine said to me recently. “I can’t make sense of it all. What’s the point of all those short sentences?”
My sister-in-law asked me the same thing and so did my neice: I Don’t Get Twitter.
That’s pretty much what I thought too, when Glenda Watson Hyatt introduced me to Twitter over a year ago. I am so glad that I listened to Glenda, because Twitter has become my virtual watercooler. In my daily life, I’m often cut off from conversations around me unless I have access to an interpreter, captioning or some super lipreading. Twitter lets me peek in on conversations (Ah, so that’s what people talk about!) and gives me the opportunity to join in. I enjoy Twitter so much that I ended up here: Chicago Moms on Twitter.
Liz Strauss is hosting a writing project: 25 Words of Social Media Wisdom. I’ve decided to join in and share my thoughts on Twitter and what it means to me:
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