This Chick Don't Tweet

     I'm very saddened to report that I am not the tech diva so many of my co-workers think I am. I love playing with tech tools and love sharing them with my students and friends. I love my perceived ability to find uses for most tech advances along with my problem-solving abilities which I have used in fitting the tools to the tasks. But methinks I have met my match...Twitter.

     I've had a Twitter account for more than two years. I signed up to keep track of some educator awards; you know, just in case I was getting a visit from the prize patrol. Then, I followed a fast food place to see if I could win a soda. After that, I added my daughter and several educator related threads I was already following on Facebook. But other than that, my feed was limited to just a few occasional tweets when some free giveaway was calling my name. I rarely checked on it. Pretty much everyone and everything I followed I also saw on FB. Once in awhile, at conferences, I would take in a Twitter class in an effort to be less of a twit, but still was unable to wrap my mind around a single large question...WHY?

     Then, summer came and I thought I would push my mind into the tweety bird. In just the past two weeks I have taken two classes about Twitter. I know how to find people and chats to follow. I know about all kinds of apps for all my devices to help me better organize the people and chats. But I still just can't figure out why I need to chase the chats.

     It may have something to do with the fact that I teach elementary school and even if my students had a twitter account of their own (which they are not supposed to have) I would not be virtual friends with them. It may have something to do with already being exposed to more threads than I can tie on Facebook and the many, many blogs and articles I read each week. It may have something to do with being too verbose for a mere 140 characters. It could be that I just don't care what others are doing or saying 24/7 (Sorry Brittney, Kim, and Charlie). It could just be that I'm too old. Naw, it can't be that.

     But whatever it is, it simply comes down to not being able to find a need to tweet. I can play with it and will probably continue to do so, but I'm taking the pressure off myself to forcibly make a space in my life for the tiny tweets. If it works out one day I'll be ready. But until then, I will be content to bore my friends with my FB posts and enlighten anyone in the world with this blog. That should be enough- cheep, cheep.