May 12 2009
Dont’ e-mail, FB or call me: twitter me!
As everybody know I have been having an on-off relationship with my Cell Phone for years. Cell phones do not like me. They break, grow legs, and mostly get alienated from their power cables. I have tried moving over to smart cell phones. They make matters even worse. They are power- hogging little devices out to cripple Eskom and I find myself (that is if I remembered to plug in /had a power cable) without any power by tea time! Also, my eyesight has now officially progressed past puberty and I am struggling to read which new reading glasses I should acquire. But I am digressing. Maybe I just want to mention that I do believe in cell phones as great learning devices and will use it more actively the moment I found my charger cable!
So how do you contact/get hold of me? As you have gathered by now, phoning me on my cell phone might not be a good way to go. In the past e-mail was a very effective way to get my attention. But since I have not been able to catch up on the 3000 e-mails that accumulated during my Christmas virtual break, I have funnelled my e-mail into folders and play eenie-meanie-minie-mo on which folder I will read every day. Those who know me, knows to mark their e-mail as high priority (I check that folder a few times a day)
So what is the best way? My current favourite way of communication is Twitter. I had to smile at my niece, who, on failure to contact me on my cell and landlines (Telkom took 2 weeks to fix it), resorted to see what I am up to on my twitter feed. Clever girl. Contacting me is as easy as sending me an @maggiev or direct message (d maggiev) at www.twitter.com/maggiev . And yes, it does get delivered to my cell phone via sms as well!
What actually inspired this blogpost is this cartoon:
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Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life.
KZ
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Maggie, we must be lost sisters of the same mother on different continents. I’ve had a very similar experience over the last few months. First my gmail account was hacked, all 700 contacts spammed, and then all my contacts deleted…that put a little crimp in people getting me by mail. Then my home office was spoiled with toxic mold and I had to move into temporary and now new permanent quarters (which meant my phone line was caput – it was a VOIP landline). … And the whole process was so debilitating I just started using Twitter for everything… Now I don’t want to go back to mail. And I certainly won’t go back like I used to. Can’t say everything in 140 characters…. but most everything.
Thanks for sharing your story! Makes me feel less like a troll.
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