Correspondence Hall of Shame, 10/21 / Twitter

Happy Friday! Today's CHoS is brief, so I thought I'd combine it with some of my observations about Twitter, so far.

i would like to seeyou
i am very healthy not bad looking love oral sex and well off financially

Apparently, he doesn't love punctuation.

This was from a man wearing a Day-Glo purple wig:

how about foot TICKLING???
or role playing ???
I am nearby in SFV
like translesbians in thigh boots like me ???
call me

Umm... if I liked foot TICKLING, I would have said so in my profile. And really, are the triple question marks necessary???

And this, from a man with a nice close-up shot of his erect member:

surrender your mind and body then fuck luke rabbits. Let’s talk and make it happened.

I don't know who Luke is, but I don't want to fuck him or his rabbits.

When I didn't reply, he wrote to me three more times. Some people really don't get it.

Some of you saw me ranting on FetLife earlier this week about how I started a new topic in a group and the moderator deleted it. I sent him a message, no hostility, just a simple question, and I quote:

Why was the topic I just posted a few minutes ago removed?

He wrote back, very snarky and combative, saying my topic was redundant (please! Topics are repeated on FL every damn day), and he didn't appreciate my complaining and questioning him. He ended his missive with this:

Shrugs ..yeah that is right, were all control freaks asshole meanie mods .

No, not all. Just you, stupid.

So I've been on Twitter a couple of months now, long enough to notice some generalities.

1. It has its fun moments. I like to see what my friends are up to, and sometimes people post some really funny comments and pictures.

2. The occasional intelligent conversation between several tweeters does pop up on occasion, but is severely limited due to the character limits.

3. About three-quarters of the time, posting on Twitter is the cyber-equivalent of talking to yourself, because you get no response.

4. People tweet about food, a lot.

5. Some people tweet deeply personal and heartbreaking things. I have been known to blog some pretty heavy stuff, but I think one's personal agony, if it's going to be made public, deserves more than 140 characters.

6. People tweet WAYYYYYYYYYYYY too damn much information sometimes, and I think they forget they're talking to thousands of people, not just IMing with their friends. For example, there has been an ongoing conversation since last night about butt plugs. Please, make it stop! I like these people. I just don't want to read about what's going up their butts.

7. I have 170 followers at this time. Many are scene people, but then I get the occasional Christian fundamentalist or right-wing conservative. And they're following me because....?

8. Twitter is a good place to quickly pass on some information to a whole lot of people. It's also a place where you can waste a great deal of time if you're not careful.

Guess what got Chrossed today? My off-topic Jerry Lewis post! Now that makes me smile.

Have a great weekend, y'all.

It's official, I'm a twit

Or a tweep. Or whatever the hell you call people on Twitter. Yes, I have given up my resistance and joined.

Why? Not because I feel like I'm all that fascinating. Not because I want to announce how extra crunchy and wonderful my morning cereal was, or some such crap like that. For one thing, I have a lot of friends on there and I'd like to follow them. I've been doing that anyway, but it will be much easier now that I'm a member. And for another, I thought it would be a good idea to tweet about my upcoming book as things progress.

So, I have lots and lots to learn. Hashtags, retweets, posting to and connecting with others. I'm following 15 friends so far and want to find many more. Also Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon, 'cause I like them. I just posted my first tweet. I have tried twice to post a profile picture -- I made sure it was the correct size and all. I tried two different photos. Both ended up with my head partially cut off. Oh well, I'll figure it out later.

I am @EricaScottOTK on there. EricaScott was already taken and I didn't want to be EricaScott5 as they suggested. Five what? Stupid. Anyway, I figured out how to put a Follow Me whatchamacallit on my blog page -- it's at the top of the right column. Please, if you would like me to follow you, just let me know your name there.

I will probably get ridiculously addicted to this, unless I can't figure it out and then I will be intensely frustrated. But I do promise I will not post inanity. If I'm not talking book or video stuff, I will probably do what I do best and post mini-rants. Perhaps I'll rant about how stupid it is to try saying anything significant in 140 characters.

Anyway. Do follow me, will ya? Don't leave me floating around there feeling like a lonely bird.

Speaking of the book -- as promised, I did not go overboard and other than five minor changes, I left it alone. The interior has been resubmitted, so it's now back in their hands!