Makes the heart grow fonder

(Absence part 2).

Ms. Austen used to hide her writing, both fiction and personal letters,under other papers when she thought anyone was watching her write.

I have to wonder what she would have thought about social media. Personally, I've resisted the lure of splashing everything out there for everyone to see. I doubt many people read this blog (especially after an absence of two years), so I don't really count it. I can write whatever I want to, really. This has been my only online presence. No one has really bothered me about this lack of social media involvement.

However, social media has been a big topic of discussion in one of my classes lately.  My classmates have a Facebook group to discuss school stuff, and I happen to be the only one not in it.  Though one person mentioned that she was only on Facebook for the group, and another recently mentioned they might not be there for much longer either. So it's not just me.  Honestly.

I decided, for some reason which still eludes me, to stick my toe into the pool of social media this week by setting up a household Twitter account. I follow John Cusack, Dov Davidoff, Nathan Fillion, Gloria Steinem, and various others like the show Rizzoli & Isles, while he follows Chunk Handler, Romeo the Cat, and Bo the Obamas' dog. He could follow Romney's dog, but I think it's still riding on top of one of the family's multiple Cadillacs. Since only a few people (if any) read this, we're there under D.D. and Lars.

I'm not sure what I expected from Twitter, but at this point I'm enjoying it. Some of the posts have actually been interesting, but that could be because I'm following some book things. Without Twitter, I would never have found my new hero, a 9 year old football player.

You can watch her here: http://youtu.be/ldHBB8j5QYw. It's not the version I saw, which had much better music. It was heavy rock type song by a woman, which just went perfectly with this girl power video. I really wanted to find out who did the music too.  Oops. So now I've learned a lesson about Twitter- save something if I like it because I might have found it through #discover and not through a tweet of someone I'm following.

And now, back to the regularly scheduled programming of more schoolwork.

See you around, maybe.