One more weekend down. Not too much going on, really. On Saturday, following a late start, takaza and I ran some errands, with stops at Target, Binny’s Beverage Depot, the MFF PO box, the MFF storage locker, and finally Ikea. Three hours later, we left Ikea with quite a load of stuff. We picked up a new Billy bookcase for glassware and cookbooks in the breakfast area and a new headboard for the guest bedroom.
Sunday was the Midwest FurFest staff meeting at the Westin. It was a good meeting, relatively short, and included a couple of exciting announcements. Afterward, we came home and enjoyed a pleasant evening with linnaeus, roho, and genet, back from camping in the wilds of Wisconsin. They brought the spoils of their trip with them: beer and cheese! Dan grilled up some hamburgers and we enjoyed some of the beer, then watched the season premiere of Glee, which was quite amusing.
Today has been so-so. Last night’s didn’t sit well and my stomach is still not very happy. Life goes on, though. More work on the house to be done tonight and all this week – finish assembling the book cases, get the guest bedroom into shape, and put the finishing touches on everything. With luck, we could have the whole place in good shape by the end of next weekend.
Some of you might have noticed that I’ve stopped crossposting my Twitter posts over to LiveJournal. They were here for one reason only prior to that – so my family could read them. I made sure that they were behind a cut and were as unobtrusive as possible. I discovered something, though – the automated posting made me lazy and less likely to actually update this journal. Once I determined that my family knew to check my Twitter page directly (and thus see the tweets less than 24 hours later), there wasn’t much reason to continue them.
I do respectfully disagree with woodychitwn‘s thesis that Twitter is not an LiveJournal replacement. After giving it careful thought, I came to the conclusion that how social media is used is up to the user themselves. There is no right way or wrong way to use it, particularly since most social media is opt-in. In fact, I think it is somewhat presumptuous to instruct someone how they should be using one form of media or another (and I am guilty of this myself in the past, though I will endeavor not to do so in the future). If you disagree with how someone is using a particular media, no one is forcing you to continue to read it. If you worry that by defriending/unsubscribing you will cause issues, then you are going to have to judge whether that social cost is worth the annoyance the usage is causing you. And at that point, that is a problem for you as a reader to resolve, not the user of the social media.
OK, off to a short meeting. I need to post more this week about upcoming plans, parties, and other fun things like that!
I hate you for the mere fact you used the word “twitter”.
I sort of failed to actually get the art show computers from you guys yesterday…oops! I should have come down and mooched beer last night. 😉 Anyway, for a time to pick them up…I have a thing in Marengo tomorrow night, I’ll be in Minnesota Wednesday, back sometime in the evening on Thursday…how’s your Friday look?
I don’t believe we have any plans for Friday, so that will work just fine! And hey – maybe we can work out dinner or something. We’re flexible. Just let us know.
Twitter isn’t an LJ replacement. The two are different media generally used in different ways. Twitter is a null bucket for me. I have an account there, rarely read it, and never post. I have in fact defriended a few people who’s entire LJs were nothing but copies of their twits. After all, what were they going to do, bitch about it in twitter? I don’t read twitter remember?
You are entitled to your opinion. As I said above, I respectfully disagree with that opinion.
A few cents worth …
I dont have twitter.. I have my opinions about it sure, but beyond opinions, LJ is enough of an intrusion into my already ADD mental state… I dont need a distraction at work beyond those I already have.
So.. thats me, I realize. But that means I wont be reading other peoples direct twitters… time is an issue. I try not to spend any more time on line than I do.. wich is too much.
But finally the real issue I wanted to state. When you were doing the twitter posts behind cut, with little or no indication of what it was about… i was not inclined to click on and read them.
And that was your choice, as I said above. Those posts weren’t for you or for the majority of people who read this journal anyway, they were for my family.
Livejournal is great because it allows for deep, substantial, or descriptive thoughts, journals, or diary like postings. Twitter is great because it allows for quick and short posts and thoughts, especially when time is an issue. Some days I have no time to write anything in detail, but typing up something very short and fast in Twitter (or Twitter/Facebook) allows me to still record what I want to say, even if that 150 character limit can make things hard sometimes. 😛