Five reasons I should stop tweeting

9 Aug

1. I can express myself in 140 characters or less. Worse still, I can heckle in 140 characters or less. That includes references. While I can appreciate brevity, the superlative vocabulary my father paid for is now rendered irrelevant.

2. I am officially a “peeker”. I am one of those people who check their phones for messages whenever a spare minute is in the horizon. “It won’t take long. No one will notice,” I thought. When I spoke in front of an audience last Friday and half of them turned out to be “peekers”, it dawned on me how irritating that habit was!

3. I consume my news on-line these days. No paper. No TV. Just Twitter. This means I am very informed of what’s going on in the world — just don’t ask me for details.

4. I don’t blink when I read my phone. After reading Tweetdeck on my iPhone (I toggle between three Twitter accounts), my eyes start going dry. My eyes become glassy, then watery. Para akong adik!

5. I can’t stop. I guess, I am an addict …

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