Melani Blazer

I can’t honestly say I get it. I’ve been to a number of people’s twitter.com/*username* in the past week or so, trying to understand, but…I come back with… “So?”

But really, first there were yahoo groups (at least first for me) or similar message board type sites. About the same time came forums, which were a little different, as far as oragnizing posts into specific conversations. IM an chat features have always been around and probably my most used form of communication. Blogs? Meh. I can’t keep up on my own. I feel lost for things to say, and know usually forcing a topic means it’s as boring to me as it will be to the rest of the earth who manage to stumble upon it. I do like reading other’s blogs, because I feel like I haven’t TOTALLY lost touch with the world and can gain some details about this publishing business and books and my friend’s lives. Myspace? I have one, it’s as bad as blogging, but a little less…lonely. Facebook? seems redundant to Myspace-why bother. But twitter? It boggles.

I guess my schedules does it for me. It’s why I gave up on yahoo groups. I *might* be able to glance at a few things in the morning before work, but never possibly catch up. Then 8-9 hours later I maybe can get online, maybe not. Even if I did comment to something, it’s likely hours late, or any responses back to me were hours ago and the subject dropped. I really don’t see twitter as anything more than a world wide yahoo group of messages, all mixed up and tied to different responses and answers and conversations. I can’t see it working for me. Plus, my cell phone is used as a cell phone. I call people, people call me. I’m neither need or want to be tied to some electronic device. I’ve got books to write, dammit.

And honestly, this blog post was really little more than an excuse to put off starting revisions on a book. But with an editor interested, I suppose that’s way more important than blogging, twittering or…anything else, yes?