Life in the Social Media Scene

About 2 months ago I wrote a blog about the Social Media applications that are out there and how overwhelmed I got with the choices.

Well I am still exploring and getting confused and having a ball at the same time. But it isn’t easy for this almost 40 year old to stay on top of things. But my favorite one, and I’ve said that already is still Twitter. And over the Weekend I  learned something new and I was just like a little kid in the Candy store all excited.

There is a little thing called Hashtags. I never paid any close attention to them on Twitter. But now I am. We used to call them Channels on IRC like #germany. So when I found out through my fellow twitterfriend @marymcd what hashtags are, I immediatly was taken by it.

I have met a lot of new people and still getting to know all of them by visiting their Twitter page or blog or homepage. But so far being introduced to hashtags has been a excellent opportunity to meet new people, to twitter my little heart out and having a good time. And since I have to recover from Surgery for a few weeks, I have lots of time to go over some other ones that I have signed up for, and that are probably going to be a challenge for me. I am taking one social media scene at a time, we cannot have me on overload.

The other thing I would like to mention is that if you are on Twitter and are using one of the smaller Twitter clients like Twhirl or Snitter, which are great Clients if you are a beginner to Twitter or have a small followership to keep track off. But if you want to expand and include hashtags, I would suggest Tweetdeck. You can actually follow the hashtags in a column and don’t miss any tweets that go to that hashtag. It has proven itself to me over the weekend to be on top of things for me, otherwise I would have been really lost.

So here is to the Social media scene on Twitter. I can’t say enough great things about it. You meet so many wonderful people and make all kinds of new friends. Can you tell that I am a total twitter addict?

On a disturbing side note. I had a really bad Twitter dream last night. Twitter decided to shorten our 140 characters to 120 charters. It was a nightmare !! Don’t ever do that Twitter !! We big talkers already have a hard time expressing ourselves with 140 characters, 120 would be devastating.

Me and social networking…

So I am really a private person. ..No scratch that I used to be a really private person. My extend of being social online was limited to online games and IRC, and that was it. No Myspace, Facebook, Home page or anything else.

And now? I have Facebook, Myspace, Utterli, blip.fm and a few more and of course Twitter. I have become a online social butterfly. A person that is getting excited by the increase of her follower number. A person that has sought out to stalk as many people as she can, or her fingers allow to reply too. A person that throws confetti up in the air when she receives props…ok the confetti is overdoing it..but it’s close.

So what is it with the social networking scene that draws you in, and grabs a hold of you and does not release you?

I remember when I was on IRC many,many years ago, how exciting it was to talk to other people around the world. My main channel back then was #germany. I was able to communicate in german to people in Germany and around Europe, when the servers weren’t split happy. It was fun. I am kind of sad those days are gone, I made lots of friends that have moved on to bigger and better things.

So now I have other social media gadgets to invade other peoples homes with and it is exciting. I have not truly explored utterli too much. I found twitter first, well I was turned on to twitter by someone first and that is what I am most happy with. I started out small with just a few people to follow, but I am growing. I am entering my Stalking application with a handfull of people every day, and I get a few new people stalking me back each day.  I am meeting so many interesting people it is unbelievable.

So to all of you stalker-backers and people that allow me to stalk them. Thank you! I promise I won’t disappoint you in making your life a bit more interesting.

So twitter on people..twitter on !