40 Days and 40 Nights

So this year I was planning on giving up all forms of social media, ya know twitter, facebook, blogging etc, for lent but I just got an offer for two paid writing gigs that start on the 18th and the 22nd and I’m not turning down a check (and possibly a career change/shift) doing something I love. That puts blogging out. Next up is facebook. Ahh facebook. The gift and the curse! I love keeping in touch with everyone but I hate the new layout. It took me a week to figure out how to logout (its under the accounts tab on the upper right corner) and another 2 weeks to figure out how to see just the status updates (go to friends on the left hand side and the status updates link is under that). I rarely use facebook besides the constant poking. I’ve really cut back on my facebook usage.

Now twitter, that’s a totally different story! I am always connected to twitter. Even if I’m not updating or replying I’m reading all the foolishness and the occasional interesting tweet or link that fills my screen. Twitter is always good for a laugh. To give up twitter will be hard but we all know twitter aint nuttin but da devil!!!

The problem I face is that I have a twitfeed set up that automatically puts a link to my blog whenever I update it. That shouldn’t really count unless I actively or manually go to the site or link something right? Right. I mean its not like I’m going to write something just so that it can post to twitter. That would be crazy right? Right?

Anyway, it came down to facebook or twitter and since I use twitter as the biggest waste of time of the two, plus like I said we all know its the devil, I’ve decided to let twitter go for lent. If you do follow me @sincerethoughts then I’ll check back in with you on April 4th. Until then check me out here or at Youngwritersblock.org. I’m sure I’ll be posting a whole lot more during the next 40 days.

Peace
Sincere

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6 Comments to “40 Days and 40 Nights”

By Nena, February 18, 2010 @ 11:23 PM

Twitter for Lent?! Ok, I wont knock you but geesh…!
By Sincere, February 18, 2010 @ 11:59 PM

What? Not a good choice? lol what should I have picked? I picked a vice that I know takes up a large amount of wasted time in my life, instead of tweeting I am going to be doing something else positive.
By Mad, February 19, 2010 @ 10:10 AM

The blog is looking great! I love the updated version I totally understand giving up social networking for lent .. I should follow suit. lol
By Sincere, February 19, 2010 @ 2:19 PM

Whuddup Mad!
Thanks for the compliment I had it done by my homie and play cousin Tayo. Her site is alltayo.com. I’m thinking of buying some other donmains and redirecting them to this site so I’ll need your help pretty soon.
I think social networking is my biggest vice so I had to give it up. It hasn’t been easy but I haven’t logged in to twitter since Weds. Starting to go through withdrawals already! Lol
By laughing808, March 9, 2010 @ 11:33 AM

as you can see I’m catching up on my blog reading, hence the late replies.

Glad to hear giving up blogging wasn’t the final decision.

I haven’t twittered in a minute……everytime I logged on seemed like my computer would act up…….
By Sincere, March 11, 2010 @ 7:42 AM

Lol that lasted for about 2 weeks before I ‘accidentally’ tweeted! Lol I didn’t mean to tweet & forgot about Lent. So I gave up something else in its place. Text messaging! Lol