Twitter as a Time Commitment

I began twittering because other people were doing it. I kept doing it because it was such an easy way to keep up wtih my friends and get the news headlines. I gradually sunk into tweetdeck, splitting my twitter account into a public (hpakaren) and private (karnebernstein) account, and even started updating some “news” twitters (hpachapters and ConnectUNC).

it became too much to read, and so then I sorted my twitter into columns to make it easier to find the info I wanted to read.

And somewhere in there, I crossed a line from “awesome new social media” to “complicated message device that eats my computer memory and processing time, takes too much time to read, and is very difficult to update and change.”

What used to take so little time now takes too much time. I have a hard time finding hte information I need. And i don’t get twitter ettiquette. Can I stop following someone after I’ve started because they update too much or aren’t sharing important info?

I believe there’s a place on the internet for twitter, and I’m a full fan of people using it for whatever method they want.

But something that used to be so short and easy to read is now the cause of frustration and stress and a time-eating crocodile (think Peter Pan-style). 140 characters at a time adds up fast.

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