tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4798420379667028780.post6973568450872426682..comments2014-09-10T13:39:49.567-07:00Comments on My (Mommy) Brains Are Leaking: Twitter and Moving as Emotional MetaphorsRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16628017613611877393noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4798420379667028780.post-22461824056698930822014-04-14T07:49:49.665-07:002014-04-14T07:49:49.665-07:00Thanks! This post kind of got away from me. And ...Thanks! This post kind of got away from me. And it's not the most popular type, but I keep wrestling with wanting to write as a way to think and grow and also wanting to have people read what I write. Otherwise I could just keep a journal, right?<br /><br />I wonder if Twitter made more sense when bandwidth was more of an issue - or for people using phones instead of laptops. I do everything from my laptop, so character limits don't make much sense. I'm hopeful that over time it will expose me to some new ideas and people. I've learned a lot already. <br /><br />Thanks for reading!Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16628017613611877393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4798420379667028780.post-46950826904825183182014-04-14T03:21:27.104-07:002014-04-14T03:21:27.104-07:00"But unlike the physical stuff the emotional ..."But unlike the physical stuff the emotional stuff doesn't stay out of the way like I wish it would. It shuffles around and ends up in the middle of the hallway - on the way to the bathroom - at two in the morning. I trip. I try to unpack the box and get rid of the junk."<br /><br />Love the metaphor!<br /><br />And loved reading this whole piece...it's like a snapshot of the narrator's emotional and mental and physical life... a landscape..and in the spaces are connections on all sorts of levels.<br /><br />Social media is an interesting experiment. I joined Twitter back in 2008(?)...not long after it launched. [I had a different Twitter account then; I deleted it in 2012(?).]<br /><br />I liked Twitter more back then; it seems it was more personable...but maybe that perception is just where my head was at the time. (I made some connections back then with folks who I've since met face to face.) Then, for me, Twitter became more like promotions rather than dialog. But...one can't dialog much in 140 anyway. (There is something called twitlonger which I used to use regularly in some of my Twitter discussions.) <br /><br />And now, that's how I view Twitter...more like promotional snippets. And that's okay, of course. :-) Sometimes I do like the challenge of 140.<br /><br />Thanks for connecting with me over on Tweetsville. *thumbsup*<br />onepersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10395600714257162622noreply@blogger.com