Shy away from Twitter
March 30th, 2009
Twitter is a simple social networking site that has been appreciated a lot. Complicated applications like photo albums, snowball fights, MySpace layouts and groups belong to MySpace or Facebook, not Twitter. Another fantastic thing about Twitter is that you get to follow celebrity who you usually would never have a chance to meet in real life. However, they are not always easy to find, for example, Demi Moore is ‘disguised’ as MrsKutcher. I’m not that kind of crazy fan who would follow every move of their admired ones, but I do enjoy following them a little bit. I found out lately that one of my favorite stars Mariel Hemingway has published some healthy food cookbooks. I also found that she’s fun to follow in a spiritual way. But to be honest, I’m not expecting other people to follow me.
One thing that Twitter upsets me a little bit is that there’s pressure to be followed. People would think you’re unpopular if the number of people you’re following is larger than the number of people who are following you. A nerd is the exact word for this kind of unpopular person just like me when I was young. In most cases, people only follow you in the hope of that you would follow them too on Twitter. The reason why people are collecting followers they don’t even know is beyond my understanding.
I constantly get emails saying that I’m followed by some random guy. But the more secret followers I have, the more nervous I become about the things I write on Twitter. If you’re a celebrity, you wouldn’t have this kind of concern, even if the things you wrote was like “I am dating a new girlfriend.” The fact that you’re Lindsay Lohan will still make people holler.
I, on the other hand, am not even close to being famous. Yesterday I wrote a little something on Twitter: “Sauna the lousiness away.” For people who know me, they get to know me a little better, they may even considering joining me sometime. But for the strangers that are following me, they would probably think: “Yeah, right, like I would care about that.”
In my opinion, the pressure will start to accumulate as the number of your followers rises. For me, I would say that I’m happy that I’m not that popular. I have around 50 followers, some of whom I know pretty well. When I post something, I feel like that I’m actually talking to them. If the number of my followers skyrockets to 1, 000, I will be very careful about what I post, the pressure of not wanting to disappoint followers would be extremely high. I don’t want to leave Twitter for that reason yet because I still enjoy it.
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