A few days ago I read a good post by Frank Viola entitled Twitter vs. Facebook: Reflections, Comparisons, and Ministry Perspective. He does a nice job of showing the significant differences between the two. In part because of his article, I finally gave in and signed up for a Twitter account.
While I'm not as popular as Charlie Sheen, Tim Tebow, or John Piper, I'm happy to say that I now have a whopping 11 followers. Look out world! In case you are wondering, my username is ericcarpenter70. Despite my technology failings, I even managed to link from my Twitter to both my Facebook and blog.
I have no doubt that in a few years some new form of social media will sweep the globe. I'll resist for about three years and then cave to the pressure. At least I'm consistent.
10 comments:
Great news, but no link to your account. What's your handle? I'm @joelz on Twitter.
Joel,
I'm new to this, but I think you can find me at ericcarpenter70.
Eric,
I'm consistent too. Blogging is sufficient for me :)
I don't use Twitter much. My blog posts are tweeted automatically, but that's about it.
-Alan
Alan,
The good thing for me is that I can now post from phone to Twitter and then automatically to Facebook. Because we have Cricket phones, I couldn't do that with just Facebook.
hey congrats on the twitter account and Alice told me who one of your followers is and I am UBER impressed!!!!! That makes me want to actually do something with mine but I like facebook better oh well.
Jessica,
I think Frank started following me because I linked to him the other day from my blog. Maybe if you link to his blog he will start following you, too.
that would be cool if I liked twitter :) maybe I'll write a cool status about him on FB and he'll friend request me ;)
I just followed you on Twitter. But I'm with you. I just joined Twitter about six weeks ago.
I used my first ATM about a year ago. Can you believe that?
I still don't own a cell phone. How long can I hold off?
Jeremy,
There does seem to be a pull toward more and more technology. I'm not sure why. I am impressed that you've held out so long against cell phones.
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