A few weeks ago, my hubby needed to get a new phone. His old Razor was falling apart and every time I would try to talk to him all I could hear was static or a choppy signal. It was time to replace things. Since it is tax time and we did get a bit of money back from Washington, he decided to upgrade to an iPhone. He has been wanting one since they came out (so have I) and since the account is in my name, we both needed to go down to the AT&T store to upgrade the account. For the first week, hubby did not come up for air... no matter where we were, he was playing with the phone. That is fine with me... He has been so patient waiting to get one and like me, we love gadgets... and this is the ultimate gadget for nerds like us.
A few weeks later when my tax check arrived, I decided to also upgrade my phone to the iPhone. I can say that I truly love the phone and that I have all my gadgets wrapped up in one... phone, iPod, computer... in one easy device. Yes... there are down sides of the device like never knowing when you will find a 3G signal... the OS does not do Flash on web sites... No MMS service (soon to be fixed this summer!) but all in all, an amazing device. I am also part of the facebook world and enjoy keeping up with the lives of my friends both old and new. I truly feel facebook has connected me to people I have lost over the years... this including my family members.
Now we have something called Twitter. I have had an account for a while now but never really used it. Then I installed it on my phone. Now I follow about 20 people/things and have about 20 people following me. Strange... I find it weird that people want to know what I am doing all the time... and even weirder... that I am actually typing in what i am doing during the day to let them know all this! Are we all becoming mini 'superstars'? Our own little fan clubs? I now get so much information pushed at me all day long. Almost too much... One day, a friend I follow who has a pod cast sent out over 60 tweets that day. My phone was almost dead by 3 p.m. in the afternoon. I am not sure I want to be that connected to the world. Are we all becoming superficial?
I will have to play with Twitter a bit more to see if I like it. Maybe its just a fad... but I did add it to my blog below... just in case you need to know what I am doing each moment of the day.
I'm enjoying a site called "storytlr." It links Facebook, Twitter and my blog, so when I post a new blog entry or update on Facebook, it appears on Twitter. I peek out at others' "tweets" now and again, but usually only when I'm home.
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