Twitting On Twitter

I can understand the appeal of Twitter and how it can be useful in certain circumstances - e.g. to promote an upcoming event or item of interest or provide updates and certainly that is how we try to use it here in the library. I have done tweets on the Central blog to promote specific books or programs to library users and I hope they do find it of interest and helpful. It is most useful for last minute changes or updates.

Personally, though, I am not interested in using it at all. I did set up an account a few months ago just to see how it works but frankly, I don't need another time waster - which I think it is, for the most part. By the time you change your Facebook status and update your tweets - is anyone really doing anything important or interesting?? Perhaps it is a generational thing. I did not grow up using social networking tools (except the telephone!) and so privacy is important to me and I don't particularly want to share a lot of personal information, nor am I all that interested in what other people are doing unless there's something exceptional happening. It's just one more place to look and another password to remember!