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Because I Can’t Say That in 140 Characters
Posted on January 7th, 2010 in Life and Family by Fred McKinnon
My buddy, Joel Klampert … well, he started this conversation. It’s one that I’ve been having “in my head” for a while.
Let’s face it.
Twitter and Facebook. They have really changed the way we experience “community” online.
For a season, you learned what you know about me, and about what I know (which isn’t necessarily all that much) through this blog. Now, if you follow me on Twitter (which also connects via Facebook) you get a LOT more information.
According to Google Site Analytics and Feedburner Stats …. there are more of you subscribed to and visiting this blog than ever before. Thousands. Can I say thanks? Thanks.
Yet … there is less commenting and community …
I have to confess, I rarely have time to visit many of your blogs these days, but I see your tweets. Sometimes, I click on them and read your blogs.
So … is this horse dead? Why keep riding it? Why keep blogging?
That’s the question I’ve asked. Soul-searching. Pondering.
But, I’m still doing this thing called “blogging”. Why?
Because …
* I can’t tell you some of the stories of my kids in 140 characters or less.
* I can’t ask the questions I have about Scripture in 140 characters or less.
* I can’t share vision and invite you to be a part of in 14o characters or less.
For those who know me personally, I can’t answer the simplest question in 140 WORDS or less, much less 140 characters. My childhood nicknames were:
Motor Mouth
Mouth of the South
So, there you have it. 292 words to explain why I can’t condense my community to 140 characters or less.
Will you help me make this blog a better community, where we can go a little deeper with one another than 140 characters allows?
Jump in.
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I know that when you write it challenges and encourages me. I have a blog, and don’t get much time to write on it, but I was thinking yesterday about this. Hoping that whoever comes to my blog is touched in some way even if I never know who they are.
Thanks Fred, keep writing.
Just found your blog and while I like Twitter and Facebook for quick updates, you can’t really learn much from them. Their constant updates can however point people to blogs like yours (and hopefully some day mine) where we can then learn more about a subject that interests us, in this case the Bible and Christianity.
Howard,
Thanks a ton – just checked out your blog, and it’s got some incredible content on it … keep plugging away!