Cause to Pause

I was talking to a friend recently about all things social (media, that is). Like most folks, he does not see the value in twitter for his needs. Middle aged, retired, busy. Facebook, he gets. Twitter…not so much. In his mind “I don’t need another inbox, and I don’t spend a lot of time on my phone.”
This got me to thinking about twitter usage. The vast majority of my usage does, in fact, come from my phone. Sure, I have tweetdeck on my home and portable PCs (not my company desktop), but just as often as not, I have it turned off. However, if I am moving, the phone is generally out.
Facebook, it seems is more “stationary” for me. If I am going to post there (combined twitter-facebook posts excluded), I am generally sitting a chair. I also often proof-read my posts to other people and ask questions like “Do I really need to say this? How will it be received? What kind of message am I sending?” More of a “let’s sit down at the kitchen table with some bacon and visit”.
What about you? Do you think twitter lends itself more to “moving, on the go” posts and Facebook more of a “sit down, think about what I am going to write and upload” scenario? When you think “twitter” do you think 20-something walking between coffee shops and when you think “facebook” do you somehow visualize old friends reconnecting at a more leisurely pace?

Last night as I was working away and I heard a commotion in the other room. I looked up just in time to see a stuffed duck go flying by. Tam the Wonderdog is a seven year member of the "sight hound" family. Translation: sleeps a lot. For her to be playing with her toys, especially in the summer time, is very rare. She was obviously trying to get my attention. And got it she did.
I just can’t imagine what that would have been like had that same instance happened with a son or daughter.
So, if you are one of my friends who struggle with work-life balance, know that you were prayed for last night.
You can thank Tam.

For the faithful and observant, you noticed that when the page loaded, the domain got a lot shorter. I had been using the absolutely, 100%, not paying for anything, free Wordpress.com to host my blog. Upside-free. Downside-subdomain: www.jeffsuever.wordpress.com. A little cumbersome, but not nearly as bad as Live Spaces.
I finally broke down and paid for a domain name and mapping. Still using the free version of WordPress though. Haven’t moved to the self-hosted WordPress.org yet. In the future I may as there are a few features I would like to incorporate. When I finally stay consistently above that “1,500 unique and returning visitors” per day average, I’ll pop for the $5/month a host will cost me. For now I’ll just stick to the free version and keep working on content.

Your RSS feeds and bookmarks should still be fine…but you might want to update ‘em just to be sure.