{"id":244,"date":"2008-08-08T22:54:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2008-08-08T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:54:34","slug":"how-was-life-without-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/how-was-life-without-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"How was life without Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Adopt<\/a>Image by ( Krikit )<\/a> via Flickr<\/span><\/div>\n

About a week ago I suddenly stopped using Twitter<\/a>. I remove the Twitterberry app from my Blackberry, and disabled the web version. So there was no more Twitter. During this time I continued with my normal life and started gathering notes on differences.<\/p>\n

Three biggest observations:<\/p>\n

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  1. I should Twitter this effect. <\/strong>I realized that I became more self-conscious. While things are happening to me in a course of day, I see events that are “important enough” to warrant a Tweet. I also tried to formulate perfect 140-chars limited wording in my head. The fact that I couldn’t get my twitter hit<\/em>, always left me a bit down.<\/li>\n
  2. Nobody missed anything important.<\/strong> Not really a discovery, but I think that nobody really missed things that I broadcast out. There were a few requests for information\/parties\/etc. but somehow they everyone managed to find me through the usual channels: email\/IRC\/etc.<\/li>\n
  3. I didn’t miss big things.<\/strong> While I can’t really know this without going back and reading the whole week of Tweets, I got all the information I needed through RSS feeds or personal\/electronic interaction with people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    While nothing bad happened, I did notice that I was less distracted<\/strong>. I’m not sure if this is connected directly to not using Twitter, but not having something to do while being bored for 3 minutes at lunch\/meeting\/etc. did help me focus better.<\/p>\n

    I did probably miss a lot of impromptu opportunities<\/strong> for meetings, coffee and similar that people throw out into Twitter, and hope that someone replies. As a consequence of this I spent a few more evenings at home, hacking and working on fun things (like blogging).<\/p>\n

    Going back<\/p>\n

    I do want to go back into using Twitter. I will probably follow less people<\/strong>, and self-control myself<\/strong> on mobile device but most importantly, I just need to reserve myself more personal time<\/strong> and cut down on all the social hanging out (it’s not that I don’t enjoy it, but maybe there is an upper limit).<\/p>\n

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