I decided to abandon my blog again. But a certain friend, an unnamed architect who's office is around the corner from our house, yes, you! - said that I should keep writing.
So this is my story of re-discovering social media:
I opened a Twitter account in 2010. Actually, I've been on Facebook since 2007. And before that I was an active iwiw (Hungarian Facebook) user. My first email account was set up...in about 1996.
I am still a fan of emails and prefer to use my yahoo account instead of gmail (this personal preference is subjective and is not based on an expert analysis).
Okay, so, I opened the twitter account in 2010. And I have been writing this blog on and off since 2005. At some point, I stopped writing blogposts because my thought became random and short. I do not think it's; too bad, only that under the influence of my work and lifestyle, I have learnt to express myself briefly (ok, not everyone will agree with that).
So, a tweet has the right length (in my opinion) to throw in an idea and add a reference to a spot on the world wide web where more can be read about the idea.
In 2010 i did not find twitter fun. In 2012 i do. I use it as a "professional short messaging service". And this is what it comes down to: I find it strange to connect to groups I appreciate at a professional level on Facebook and I find it important to keep tweets professional.
I know I am also supposed to use LinkedIn for professional purposes. I do that to update my CV etc, but not for short updates. That is something best done through twitter.
For example, tonight I wanted to write about the concert of Carlos do Carmo, how in made me think about "everyone has their own circus and bread" and how we live in denial. But I do not seem to be able to put the links between the fragments of the thoughts down explicitly enough. So I look for someone else on the web who has done so already. And I simply add a link to their work on my social media platform: http://www.thefastertimes.com/classicalmusic/2009/07/09/classical-vs-pop-bread-and-circuses/
Well, it's based on the flawed assumption that classical music is necessarily better (more intelligent) than pop music. I think this is something many of us believe without ever questioning why. More on this next time!
