Business Casual

I’m all atwitter.

OK, not really. Actually, I’m just Twittering. My friend and colleague Denise Neil signed me up on Twitter, the site that lets people know what you’re doing every minute of the day, if you choose to tell them.

I confess that, just like this ridiculousness over Facebook, LinkedIn and all those other Web sites where people keep requesting me as a friend, I still don’t get it. But I realize I need to. So I’m trying. I hear we’re even going to offer a course in the newsroom to teach us to use Facebook for networking purposes. I’m sorry, but I thought that’s what the three martini lunch was for.

Part of what I hate about all this online business (aside from all those user names and passwords that I can never remember) is the sites never seem to work when I go to them. For instance, my first experience with Twitter moments ago? The site said: “Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.” And yesterday on Facebook when I tried to take a “likeness quiz” that our online editor sent me, it said, “URL not found.”

I don’t have time for this!

But as Jeff Butts, one of our online gurus, Twittered just yesterday about me: “Tell her that resistance is futile. She will be assimilated.”

Fine. So I just Twittered that I was going to blog about Twittering. And now I’m blogging about Twittering. I’d go back and Twitter that I’ve successfully blogged on Twittering, but I think the paper is expecting a column from me, too. I’ll update Twitter as I go, and I’ll be back to blog on that soon.