Remember 8-tracks? Leisure suits? Plaid check everything? Compared to the jumble of life demands now, the early ’70s seem like a sleepy dream. I had the 45 of this song and would play it again and again on the family record player.
It was also in one of my fave movies of all time, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Legend is that Sammy Davis, Jr. wanted to be the candy store owner in the movie, but was denied. So he decided to record the song anyway. Glad he did.
What is a song you like from your birth year?
Has it always been a fave or did you discover it years later?
My name is Barbara. I just joined Twitter. And I’m an addict. Kristen Lamb cautions about the time-stealing dangers of what she calls Twitter Attention Deficit Disorder (TADD), and you better believe I’ve got it bad.
Yes, it happened after only about 25 tweets in. Now I’m logging into Twitter on my laptop. I’m using the app on my Galaxy Tab. I got the great app TweetDeck (setup for use both on laptop and Tab), but am abusing my eyes wading through my multiple columns. I’m reading bios and lists and links and trending topics. Then there are the texts to my phone. And the obsessive reading of everyone’s “follow” lists. And the hashtags. So many hashtags.
Oh I fought the Twitter draw for a while – just as I did with Facebook, getting an iPod and even CDs back in the day. I’m not what one would consider an early adopter. I sit back, research, watch and analyze. I hear the fans share about the fantastic pluses and read the tech experts balance out the cons.
But for Twitter, oh my sweet sweet Twitter, the articles did you no justice. One must be fully immersed (or so I delude myself) in the real-time dialogue to understand the golden treasure that you are. I hear the blips in my sleep and wonder what nuggets of breaking news knowledge I’m missing. I sound I bit crazed I know so maybe if I hunker down, the frenzy might eventually pass?
How do you balance your use of Twitter?
Does this newbie obsession to tweet and read tweets ever end?
Who are some of your favorite people and groups to follow?
And by the way, everything in life is writable about
if you have the outgoing guts to do it,
and the imagination to improvise.
The worst enemy to creativity
is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
Barbara McDowell 