I’ll be the first to admit I’m not an early adopter. I got my first laptop only two years ago (and now I can’t imagine living without it) and it took me ages to do stuff online (ditto – my entire working life is now online). My aversion to cell phones is bordering on legendary and I can’t text anything at all. Ever. I actually have a fourteen year-old girl on retainer to translate English to text if I need to use it in a book. I now spend way to much time on FaceBook and I’ve started using our Flip to send videos of little league games to the hubby when he’s out of town. I have a MySpace account, although I do admit it is going to be sorely neglected until close to the release date for my YA early next year.
I don’t tweet or follow anyone on Twitter and frankly, I’m not really planning to anytime soon. Can you be a Twitter Quitter if you never started in the first place? I’m standing firm in my stance to dodge the popularity of this particular technology. If the big thing about Twitter is that Ashton Kutcher has a million followers, well, I don’t care enough about Ashton (or anyone else outside of my immediate family) to want to know what they are up to every second of every day. I may look back on this whole thing in two years when the entire world is tweeting and kick myself for waiting so long. On the other hand, I may sigh with relief six months from now when the whole Twitter thing has gone away. Friendster anyone?
The biggest problem with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and even (ahem) blogging is that while they are a great way to stay in touch, they are also a great way to avoid the hard work of sitting down, opening up the trusty laptop file and writing the daily allotment of words on my current work in progress.
Which is what I really should be doing right now.
Is there a networking platform that you absolutely wouldn’t go without?
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