Well, my first step was to sign up many months ago. Here I am at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?profile=1&id=1352577313
And here I am at Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bonnie_Dee
So I had these accounts and did nothing with them—for a very long time. What could I say that was interesting? Plus I needed “friends” to talk to. Then lo and behold people started to Friend me and I learned I had to actually follow a link and accept them as friends. You wouldn’t believe how long it took me to realize that when someone follows your Tweets you should follow theirs too.
I learned about Tweetdeck and downloaded that then stared at the conversations and wondered how I was supposed to just dive in. Plus every time I tried, my sentences were too long. For me it’s hard to keep my word count down.
I’m not exactly a social media butterfly but I’m getting better. Friend me and find out. I guess I still don’t get what the big attraction is to Tweeting but I have to admit I kind of like that soft little twittering sound when a new message pops up while I’m working on my computer.
How many of you are into online socializing? Do you thrive on it or feel it starts to distract you from things you ought to get done?
Well I finally got around to blogging and facebook last year…I haven’t signed up for twitter…as it is blogging takes up all my free time b/c I follow a gazillion different blogs and facebook is my other time guzzler so there is no way I’m letting myself get suckered into another social networking circle. Besides, I don’t like how twitter is so brief…you can’t express your thoughts in full sentences and for me that’s a precarious situation to be in since I always got in trouble all through high school and university for consistently writing looong run-on sentences.
Online social networking does distract from writing. On the other hand, when our books are first released electronically, the buzz needs to spread electronically as well. And that’s not going to happen if no one knows who you are.
Plus, I do enjoy blogging (and get free books from doing so, which is another plus). That and Facebook are more than enough for me, though.