Yep. I just joined Twitter.
I don't really know why I'm joining Twitter. I resisted as long as I could, but people are just so darn passionate and sincere about the Importance of Twittering. It's like the MLM of the online world - I'd better start building my downline now, or when this pyramid blows I'll be completely SOL.
I'm not sure I really understand the point of it yet, but if you’re on there, and you feel like following me, I'm @suelikestoblog. (Although I’m not exactly sure why I want you to follow me.)
(Are you sensing a theme here?)
Also, I need to give a shout out to my little brother...
Mark is definitely the funny one in our family, the one with the dry wit and the snappy comebacks. He's also very smart, and so gosh darn normal that I sometimes wonder if he was switched at birth. (I have eight brothers and sisters, and I think almost every single one of us have Mark and his wife Holly listed in our wills as the just-in-case guardians for our kids. Because they're normal. And FUNNY. Nothing worse than having your kids raised by humorless people.)
He is also the most amazing insurance agent on the FACE OF THE PLANET. I never plug people or products on my blog (seriously, click over to my review blog - it's BLANK), but I really wanted to spread the word. He just got his license as an independent broker, which lets him shop around - and this, as it turns out, makes a rather gigantic difference in the premiums. He basically halved our auto insurance cost and is saving us about twenty percent on our homeowners insurance - all with the exact same coverage.
When I told him I was going to mention him on my blog, he wrote this back:
Thanks. I'll be sure to plug your blog to all my customers:If you're thinking about taking a look at your insurance costs, you should call him. Or email him. Or contact him via psychic brain wave. (Whichever method you think will be the most efficient.)
Mark: Thanks for buying your insurance from me. My sister has a cool blog you should check out.
Client: Excuse me?
Mark: You know, a blog.....on the internet.
Client: Oh, is it about insurance?
Mark: No.
Client: {blank stare}
His name is Mark Hutchings, his work email is mhutchings at distinctive dot net, and his work cell is 702-588-9176. He's licensed in Nevada, Utah and California.
PS: Mark, you should totally start an insurance blog. A funny insurance blog. IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES.
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I just got your Twitter request tonight. Sadly, I joined Twitter a while ago, and haven't been back since.
I'm over stimulated! Blogs, Facebook, MySpace, etc. And honestly, I don't really understand Twitter and it scares me. There. I said it. Twitter and babies scare me.
Twitter?
I still haven't joined Facebook.
I'm on Facebook, but this is the first I've heard of Twitter. How's it going for you so far? I really love Facebook, myself.
TWITTTTER!
I'm on a couple of times a day, although never for very long at a stretch - perhaps our paths will cross, some lucky day. (Doesn't that sound like a song? From a 1930s musical? About Twitter?)
I have to admit - I have of yet to get into Twitter. I signed up over the summer and I tried - I really did - but I'm still not hooked.
Every once in a while (like every few weeks now), I'll login and tweet. Then I might reply to a tweet that I see from one of the people I follow. Then I check through pages of the 100 people tweeting (or twittering - whatever) to see if anyone has replied to me. Sometimes they do - but often not. It's rather anticlimactic.
In the past I've compared my experience on Twitter to that of a foreign exchange student in high school. There are all of these conversations going on around you, but you have no idea what anyone is talking about.
I'm following you now - but it's more of an "in spirit" thing for me. I just don't love Twitter. Seriously - I'm more likely to update my Facebook profile (which means - hardly ever).
I'm almost the same way, Kate. Social networking isn't the cat's meow for me. I do stay logged into Facebook almost 24/7, but I don't do much on there but watch my friends and family's latest status updates, look at pictures and watch the occasional video.
There is sooo much you can do on Facebook, but 80% of it really doesn't appeal to me.
Being that I have Myspace AND Facebook, I'll probably never "Tweet", but you never know. It would take some REALLY close friends to join Twitter and invite me. But that's me. :)
Yup - the funny insurance blog field is wide open...for some reason...
I will totally get ahold of him. Sixteen. Year. Old. New. Driver.
AHHHHH!
I don't fully GET Twitter either. I'm thinking you have to be on there a whole lot for it to reach it's potential.
Potential for what, you ask?
I'm not sure.
It sure seems to be "working" for people with blogs with over 5,000 readers. They have huge followings on Twitter and then can link to their latest posts and get more hits that way. That's about all I know. Aren't I brilliant?
An honest insurance agent for a son is really great; but he probably charged me extra for raising his siblings to torment him. I saved money anyway.
Tweet, Tweet, Tweet....
That's me telling you that I wonder who comes up with these things and what are they taking when they do?
Oh yeah---and you go, bro.
I'm totally sending him a psychic brain wave to become licensed in Alaska, because that's what matters for me. Think it will work?
Sadly, I live in Ohio.
But I will add you on Twitter for sure. I'm expecting great things from you. :)
Darn the luck. Tell your brother to license in Arizona, too. I'm all about saving money.
Wow, Sue, thank you!! This is the nicest, okay, and only, plug we have gotten. But it really was so nice. I hope some of your fans let Mark give them a quote. Coincidentally I had a post I was doing with a link to you (the kissing meme thing), but it was horribly boring because of my lack of action, so I scrapped it. If you do one about how many boys you were totally desperate & pining for, I could do that.
I love how you can make anything funny. And I love that Mark is licensed in California.
I don't think I can handle both Twitter and Facebook. And my blog. This is turning into a fulltime job. Remember the old days when we just had email an instant messaging?
My husband suggested I Twitter last night, and I think my eyeballs popped out of my head and rolled across the floor. He, of course, does not have a manuscript to deliver on Monday. Slacker.
Hey, Sue! We missed you at the meet n' greet today...would have been fun to be able to gaze at you adoringly. So I guess I'll just stick to the stalking.
Way to pimp your brother out. It's what all good sisters do. And have fun with twitter. I signed up but still haven't really gotten into it.
A little late to be commenting on your blog about writing a book but I wanted to say I've written a novel too and I personally think it's so much better than a lot of the books I've read. I've sent my query letter to 25 or 30 agents and no takers yet. I'd love to see your query letter and see how mine holds up. Good luck with the publishing.
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Eight siblings? Which one of you gets to be Seven of Nine?
I think joining Twitter would probably put me over the edge. But then again, maybe I'm already there :)
Okay, I think a funny insurance blog would be...well funny!
I don't understand twitter. I joined it. Was on there for a couple hours. Thought it was weird. Un-joined.
However, does your brother do health insurance??? That's what I'm in real need of!
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