twitter, tweater, twiddle, twerp

Okay, I've decided to completely embrace, figure out, dive in and otherwise become obsessed with all manner of online social media. For a month. I'm giving it a month. The back of my head and my neck already aches, and, hey, what about that Internet Sabbath I pledged. A month.

Here's why.

I write for a living. It isn't a hobby, it's not what I do on my time off, it's what I do. Period.

My concerns, projections, trepidations and misgivings are thus:

1. I'm contributing to the trend towards limited attention and shallow engagement
2. I'll have to give something else up, and I'm not sure what that will be
3. I worry that my tendency to feel like everything is only half done and that there's something I've forgotten will increase
4. I worry about being sucked into the land of endless trivia

My hopes, goals and optimisms are:

1. I'll get to know more cool people
2. I'll get to know about more cool things
3. I'll waste less time and improve my powers of concision
4. I'll be able to get more clients, and help more clients
5. I'll deliver my creative messages to more people
6. I'll be able to boil down my messages to their most salient points
7. I'll find more audience

Let the craziness begin!