Twitter makes people fat

I’ve had Twitter on my mind over the past month or so, both in terms of tweeting my random, inane thoughts directly on twitter and using it as a promotional tool for this blog on. The random, inane thoughts part works like a charm! The latter needs a few tweaks.

Linking things (this site with twitter with facebook) at the click of a button seems like the common sense way to go. This is not based on laziness, but on simplicity and because somebody wrote a script that allows it. I mean, what is the easiest and most efficient way of doing three things at once? Install a plugin!

But when the plugin doesn’t work, mostly due to user error and impatience, and having a million different plugins to choose from anyway, it’s easy to give up trying to understand it all and draw a picture of a twitter bird instead.

Look, I’m pretty smart. I know a good thing when I see it. And things should work as advertised. At the same time, things should not be so easy for humans. I think when answers are always handed to you, and your road is paved with gold while you sit and drink an iced tea and wait, a sense of laziness and entitlement is created and those things don’t exactly challenge a person to be their absolute best.

So, screw the twitter plugins. I like doing things the hard way.

Use the RSS feed and also enjoy my independent twitter feed on occasion where I rail against republicans and teabaggers and we’ll go from there.

Cheers,