{"id":420,"date":"2022-11-22T12:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/?p=420"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:13:40","slug":"i-am-an-ex-twitterbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/2022\/11\/22\/i-am-an-ex-twitterbird\/","title":{"rendered":"I am an Ex-twitterbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This photo of the cranesbill geranium in my garden has very little to do with my topic – except it may help portray my frosty feelings towards Twitter. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I quit Twitter – just a few days ago. I had several reasons, including the re-instatement of the account of that eedjit south of the border. Had enough of him, don’t need more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have enough trouble juggling three email accounts\/identities plus associated duties as permanent or occasional “admin” for several other accounts, two facebook pages, and my own webpage\/blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I joined Twitter at the urging of people who said it would be good for my writing career; and also because I thought I may get police, fire, and other emergency warnings in time to take safety measures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter never happened. My career might have benefitted if I’d used Twitter, but I found it more of a nuisance than a help. It sent me oodles of notices about this or that person who had just posted something allegedly of interest to me, and to whom I felt I should respond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, when I had time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later never came. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, a bunch of employees at Twitter – real people, not bots – up and quit, and others got fired. At the same time, Sobeys’ info-in-the-sky system got hacked or intruded upon – and no one has explained in a way that I can understand. Coincidence? Probably. But reducing my online footprint seemed like a better idea than expanding it. Twitter was the obvious casualty because 1. I already disliked using it and 2. I get the feeling it is using me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I may be wrong. But this is a free country and I can quit if I want. So I did. One of my Facebook identities may be next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another wintry photo instead of tweeterburble. My psyche is starting to chill out a bit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My calendar is full of events and appointments and I have a lot of work to do, people to see, places to go. Real work, real people and real places – not virtual (a word which, oddly, means true, not hollow digital items). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder how far I can and will go with this cutback? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s hard to carry on business these days without any or all of a website, a telephone, and a Facebook presence. So I won’t disappear altogether into ‘netless silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to do with my tweetless time? Write. Play. Converse in person. Or I may just sit back and smell the roses – or the cookies. The edible kind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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