Well, I learned one important bit of information at the Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged Conference. Everyone is on Twitter! The bloggers at the conference were in “hashtag heaven”!
Every time a new speaker came to the front of the room, that person’s Twitter handle was announced. All the bloggers were encouraged to use a certain # for tweets about the conference.
Wow! Was I feeling behind the times. As I looked around the room, I seemed to be in the minority as a non-tweeter.
No, I don’t have a smart phone. I don’t have my ears pierced either. No tattoos. And I drive a sedan, not an SUV. I guess I march to the beat of my own drum.
The whole social media monster is much bigger than I realized. It’s not that I didn’t realize it. I just had never seen it in action like I did at the blog conference.
It took me a long time to get on Facebook. Since I got my Facebook page, I have enjoyed keeping up with people form the past. I really like the first day of school when everyone posts pictures of their kids. I eventually even got a Facebook page for Pork Chop Tuesday.
I have a love-hate relationship with Pinterest. I love it because it is like getting hundreds of magazines on my computer every day. I hate it because it is like getting hundreds of magazines on my computer every day. It is really more of an addiction than anything–visual addiction.
So, Twitter. I had no clue how to “do” Twitter. Saturday night I chatted with my new room mates about all things Twitter.
They were all such sweet ladies who had just gone through a spider crisis when we met. (Something about a nest of baby brown recluse spiders hatching and scattering all over the cabin! We got a new cabin.)

Here we are just after breakfast. I was trying to show off my cool new tee shirt!
l-to-r me, Alicia, Jeanetta, Cyndi, and Katie.
They were all “tweeters”. I started asking questions and they tried to answer. Finally, I said, will one of y’all SHOW me what it looks like?! So Jeanetta and I sat down and surfed around her feed.
After encouraging words from my new friends, I decided to give it a try. They suggested I just “follow” for a while.
I came home and signed up for my Twitter account. My camp buddies immediately showed support by following me.
Twitter moves really fast! Today I saw a friend giving a “tweet-cast” while she was at a cooking demonstration!
I’m not sure how I like it just yet. You know, the common thread of the conference was to “be authentic” “be yourself”. Did I cave to peer pressure or am I exploring who “I might be”? The jury’s still out on that one. (Boy, I have used a lot of quotation marks in this post.)
If you would like to see my tweets, you can follow me @PorkChopTuesday. Don’t expect a lot of awe-inspiring tweets just yet.
I’d be happy to hear any suggestions you might have. Are you constantly plugged in or do you check your feed only a couple of times a day? Do I add #s to my blog posts? Do you follow just people you know or celebrities?
September 17, 2013 at 1:11 pm
There is no way i can read every single tweet in my feed. Unless it’s the weekend and I’ve nothing to do and it always seems like no one is posting anything. lol
Its take me a while to get use to it and i am sure i am NOT using it properly. My husband still laughs when I call it “THE Twitter”.
Here’s to stumbling through social media 🙂
September 17, 2013 at 1:27 pm
“THE Twitter!” That cracked me up! Reminded me of “The Outbacks” from Boo Mama’s book!
See, now, do I put the little @ by her name so everyone will go check her out on “The Twitter”?