Joys and perils of social media

[missroserose]

As step 1 of Project Set Yourself Up Like A Real Writer (code name: Fake It 'Til You Make It), today I am blowing the dust off my Twitter account. Right now it's almost entirely links to blog posts, but a lot of my writer friends use it, and the structure of it makes it somewhat more public (and thus less prone to clique-y ness) than Facebook. And more resources are always useful.

Apparently I've inspired a friend of mine to do the same, which gave rise to the following exchange:


Him: I feel like a detective, trying to figure out who these people are that I've followed.
Him: Oh, and there's {friend}. Making half a dozen new people that I'm following.

Me: Welcome to social media. :)

Him: Hey, anyplace that Volgograd is a growing trend is someplace I could be.
Him: oh

Me: Hm?

Him: The reason it's trending is a couple of bombs were set off there today.

Me: Welcome to social media. :D Seriously, though, that's awful.


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