Twitterrrr....

Well, my week of Twitter is over. And I'm honestly kind of happy about it. I never have been a huge fan of Twitter, so having to partake in it for a week was a bit of a challenge for me. I have a few reasons I don't like Twitter, so it was hard having to put those aside, even if just for a week. But, I managed!

 First off, the reasons I don't like Twitter. I really don't like the reason most people use it. Updating people on everything happening in your life is unnecessary. It's like people updating their Facebook status every 2 minutes - it just gets old, and nobody really cares. Also, I didn't like not being able to set our privacy settings. I don't like the idea that people anywhere in the world that I don't even know can be following. That just creeps me out a bit. I feel like Twitter is really limited on what you can do with it as well. You can't share as many pictures or as much information about yourself for your friends, like Facebook. I feel like this limits the ways you can use it to, again, telling people what you're doing every second of the day.

With my hatred for Twitter aside, I did see it in a new light once I actually used it. I found that when people used it in the right way - sharing information, links to articles, etc. - that it could actually be useful. Unfortunately, though, most people do not use it the right way. The people that do, I thank you. I enjoyed some of the information I got out of it. I just never really got excited about Twitter. I checked it because I had to. I also found it kind of hard to come up with things to say, especially since I don't feel it necessary to share every moment of my day with the world. Maybe I'm just not enough of a creeper for Twitter, who knows.

I can see how Twitter can be used in beneficial ways, like to find jobs and things like that now. I was extremely skeptical of that idea at first, especially since I didn't really understand Twitter. I still think, though, that employers should focus more on a resume and look in the wanted ads and post things there, find people through word of mouth, etc. Call me old fashioned, but I think you can tell more about a person sitting down in an interview than through Twitter. And if you really want to get to know a possible future employee, you can have a more informal interview before or after the formal to get to know them on a personal level. Again, call me old fashioned. I just feel like technology is unnecessarily taking over the world.

So, my week on Twitter was kind of a battle. I learned a lot, but I don't see myself using it much in the future. Maybe a couple years down the road when I need a job (because as much as I don't like it, that is what the world will come to). But for now, I'm going Twitter free. My dislike for it has unfortunately outweighed the benefits for now.