Dear Twitter,
Our story began many moons ago. It didn’t take long for you to woo me with your charm and charisma. Our blossoming romance was fast, furious and intense. I fell head over heels in love with you and could not get enough.
You brought joy to my life and fulfilled me in ways nothing else could. I smiled at you. I giggled at you. I laughed so hard I cried with you. Our love was magical and pure.
It was the best of times.
But then something changed.
You became too much for me to handle. It was like I couldn’t breathe, being smothered by your tether. My world began spinning out of control.
I tried so many ways to manage you and loosen your grip on my heart.
We needed some space in order to have a healthy relationship. But you insisted I be “all in” in order for our romance to continue.
I informed you that I needed some time to think before letting you know my final decision.
So many blissful memories kept creeping their way into my mind, reminding me of happier times.
But I had come so far in putting a stop to your vicious cycle of time suckage and lack of productivity.
I knew I had to be strong. I needed to stick with what I knew in my gut was right.
It was then that I broke the chains and began dating Facebook.
I’m happy to report that my relationship with Facebook is progressing. Much slower than our past love, Twitter. But I feel like this relationship has a much more solid foundation. We’re slowly getting to know each other and building trust.
It isn’t the whirlwind romance, full of rushes of excitement and emotion like ours was, but I have confidence that Facebook and I will be together until death do us part.
I hope that we can still be friends, Twitter. Because I still do like a wild Friday night every now and then.
Signed,
Liz
It’s true – there’s an instant connect on twitter that you don’t find on facebook, that can be both exciting and time-consuming. I can close twitter for up to a week at a time without missing it if things start to get hectic around here.
Yea, I’ve been trying to break up with Twitter for months now… but I just keep coming back. It’s addicting and time sucking… but I love it anyway. I just have to visit in small doses and tell him I have a cake in the oven or something.
I’ve pulled back from Twitter, a bit, as well . . . just too much going on. And those that I actually speak with are quite limited in number. But, it works for me . . . I’ve always seen Twitter as a great big cocktail party, I join conversations as I can, and hop around.
I remember how excited you were when you hit your 10,000 tweet and then it seemed like your 20,000 was a week later. I could never figure out how you were so productive with being on Twitter all the time. I’m glad to see you are off meth.
Meth – snort!
This is exactly why I am not on Twitter much anymore. Although I also am not really on Facebook either. I just don’t have time to dedicate to either relationship
I can’t keep up on Twitter. Twitter is all about instant gratification, and with me working full-time, I just don’t have the time to dedicate to it. I don’t really have the time to dedicate to Facebook either, but at least I can check in later on in the day and respond and no one feels blown off, or misses my response.
I still love Twitter, but G+ is my new whore, er, mistress, er friend.
Jack, you’re always good for a laugh.
Laughter is something that I always hope to share with others.
I am the exact opposite. I dumped facebook a month ago because I couldn’t stand it’s drama. I have a twitter crush now.
I hear you. Twitter and I have slowed things down lately as well. It just became too much. Good news, though — Facebook and me? We’re totally serious about each other. Oh and I’m in a little honeymoon phase with Pinterest, but we’ll see how long that can last.
I love that you “get” me, Kim. We can have each other for our social media love support.
So that’s why I haven’t “seen” you around lately!
I’ve been trying to get back to this post for nearly a week – BUT YES I agree. FB makes so much more sense to me lately and my time there is actually so much more rewarding in many ways. xo
Yes, more rewarding. TOTALLY know what you mean!
You can ignore that. Sorry! I was testing gravatar out for my friend Tom and WP had saved his info!
My thoughts, but from Liz and not Tom.
no! don’t leave twitter for boring facebook, leave twitter for the new guy on the block, the seductive pinterest.
you won’t be sorry.