Finally signed up for “The Twitter.” When I first learned of it, I thought it would just be a compendium of noise, since the threshold to tweet is so low. And this is precisely why I don’t do Facebook very much — I am just not all that interested in the level of minutia of my friend’s lives, and I shudder to think they are that interested in mine (or feel that they’re missing out because I don’t post such trivialities very often). But today I found out that Steve Martin is tweeting, so I signed up to follow that.
I don’t want it to be a collection of “Boy, I could use more fiber in my diet” or “De-linting my belly button!” tweets. On the other hand, I do have these random thoughts, which I occasionally blog. That’s the kind of stupid stuff I’ll probably tweet. Probably.
I understand it’s protocol to follow those who follow you, but … no. I’m not going to return the favor in order to be a statistic, or even to be polite. I am a physicist, and have no social skills. Follow only if you have some slight possible interest in the content.
Even pre-meds’ thoughts Palin before the weapons-grade imbecility of the very common man. Kinder, Küche, Kirche, Kleider, Twitter.
Actually, it’s not generally required or expected that you follow all who follow you, so don’t worry about that too much! Twitter’s a pretty freewheeling place, with no really hard-set rules, and lots of different people use it in many different ways. With scibloggers, it turns out to be a pretty cool way to learn about interesting science tidbits and occasionally have some brief conversations about relevant sci topics.
gg- good to know, but I was suspicious when I had gained a follower even before my first tweet.