Damn you social networking! Damn you to the vile Harvard taught minds from which you escaped! You've ruined my life! I promised myself I wouldn't do it. I was hesitant to jump into Facebook, convinced it was full of teenagers and 50 year old men with greasy mustaches and REO Speedwagon posters hanging above their beds. I came around eventually, and now click on it repeatedly to see what my friends think about the latest elimination on Dancing With the Stars, as well as their Top 5 Favorite Cartoon Dogs, Which Spice Girl They'd Be, and the 25 Things I Really Didn't Want to Know About Them. And yet, I balked at Twitter. What kind of narcissistic asshole feels like he or she needs to tell the world exactly what they're doing/thinking at every second of the day? It turns out, this asshole. With 140 characters at my disposal, the world will know exactly what the wrap I ate for lunch tasted like. Am I in a taxi with a cabbie who smells like Honey Nut Cherrios? You'll now know. And, in an Ashton Kutcher-like race to gain "followers" (I currently have "8" and most of those are my family), I'm offering you, the YesButNoButYes reader, the chance to follow me on Twitter. Were that not enough, you can also "follow" YesButNoButYes on Twitter as well.
Consider your day made.
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I'm taking you off my holiday card recipient list LIDJ.
If I ask to follow you, will you think I'm stalking you?
Cindy you're welcome to follow me anywhere, even to the ends of the Earth.
Let me know the dates so i can plan accordingly.
One day we will follow Scara on twitter and read: "KICKING ECHOS ASS!"
Echo, were you channeling Tony Almeda with your profile pict?
Please hold while Echo Google's "Tony Almeda".
Yes, yes I was.
The line between you and Ashton Kutcher continues to get smaller and smaller. If you marry a cast member from "St. Elmo's Fire" it could really get freaky.
The most amazing thing here is that Echo joined Twitter with full knowledge that I would make fun of him. That's some balls.
Johnny...he has to have a wooden set to do that...
unless he named himself after who I found online...see my link over on the questions for the YBNBY staff forum....
Johnny, not only did I join Twitter so you'd make fun of me, but I fully intend on "tweeting" while drinking at the martini bar in Yankee Stadium.
Oh no, Echo. No no no no.
Damn self-deprecating humor and it's disarming qualities...
FYI: I'm currently up to 17 "followers", which makes me sort of feel like a Cult Leader, but not a very good Cult Leader. We can do better people! With your help, we can get to David Koresh or Jim Jones types of levels.
Echo, you need to sleep with all of your followers (or at least the female ones) to reach those kinds of cult numbers...
A side-step here, Echo....
I loved the headline for this post!!
Yeah, I had to doff my rumpled fedora at the title of the post. Pretty solid.
Makes me wonder how much twat could a twit tweet if a twit could tweet twat.
Echo, I believe you are in the best position to research this.
Cheers gents. It's the little things.
That's (not) what she said....
Oh, Sarcky...that's a low blow.
I will only follow you into hell. If twitter is hell strike that
(innocently) All I meant was that their things are *not* little!
Uh, Huh.
I am sure that is how Echo took it.
Okay, Effen...next time I will go for the slightly more lame and predictable "that's what she said" remark...
but as a girl I wouldn't be commending a group of guys on the little things...unless it was about them holding the door for me, standing up when I got up to leave a table at a restaurant (silly practice but would be a nice surprise since no one does that anymore), and complimenting me on my outfit (without sounding like elevator glancing pervs or Perez Hilton).
so, yes, if the little things were chivalrous actions, then...
"That's what she said!"
You've got a ways to go, Echo. I post to Twitter about once a week and I have 298 followers.
Miss C, his follower count has quadrupled since he posted--so by the end of a week, he could be in a CNN/Kutcher style race with you ;-)
Whoever is buying/donating the mosquito nets is the one I'm going to root for!
Why do I see Echo's tweets following this line of notification:
http://www.paulbaker.net/blog/scrapbook/images/penny_arcade_20080423.jpg
Miss C would definitely win. The thing is, people actually LIKE her.
Twitter has nothing to do with love...look at the farting chair guy.
People need distractions in these crazy times...and we need follow up stories...did Donna graduate, did the clouds pour down, etc....
Donna did indeed graduate and I made it (to the bar) with only a passing shower.
People like me? They really like me?
News to me!
Echowood is up to 40. I'm up to 304. Maybe I should post my profile link.
What's the difference between a follower and following?
The direction the money is flowing.
i don't think that's the answer Tim.