Saturday, January 05, 2013

Twitter and Me – Part 3

Dear readers, I am taking a short break from the blog until I get a new computer. This one keeps crashing. I need to put the book  -  PLOTTING FOR GROWN-UPS - to bed, and I need to do it before this computer croaks for the last time.

I will be back as soon as I can. In the meantime you could follow me on Twitter. My tag is @suehepworth

I have tried to get along with Twitter for a couple of years – see this post, and this post, and although I’ve learned to use it to follow my interests (by following useful links on there) I have not found it a friendly environment because all my friends disdain it. The ones who only check their email twice a week (OMG) don’t understand it, and even those who do have some inkling about Twitter want no truck with it.

I don’t want to follow people tweeting rubbish or telling me they have just eaten a Thornton’s chocolate, which means that I generally follow serious people and websites (e.g. Palestine Today and Mondoweiss) though I am getting a lot of laughs from following @TheTweetofGod. I also get to see new photos of my Californian granddaughters on there when Isaac tweets them.

Because I have no friends on Twitter, and all but three of my followers are serious geezers (or live in a different time zone so when I am tweeting, they are asleep) it means that when I ask for help on there – such as “How do you do a hashtag on an iPad?” no-one answers me. If you were there, YOU could answer me!

I wish you would join me. We could chat. I feel lonely in the Twitterverse. Go on. Give it a whirl. Otherwise, I’ll see you when I have a new computer, which I hope won’t be too long.

And here’s a photo of Monsaldale in the Derbyshire Peak District to keep you going until the summer.

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2 comments:

manjit said...

I tried to follow you on twitter, but to no avail. I will wait for you to come back. Wish you get your computer sorted soon !!

Sue Hepworth said...

Well, thanks for trying, Manjit. I have bought a computer and hope to be back in action next week. yay!