Since when did Twitter become Facebook?
It took me a while, but in January this year I found twitter. And it was a breath of fresh air after Facebook. It was clean, simple and devoted solely to communicating with people. No more would I be asked to join someone’s PirateNinjaMafia War or go hunting for Easter Eggs/Christmas decorations/Flowering plants. Neither would I be asked to pop something in a colleague’s secret lady garden or enter a friends special spyring – before the US busts it 
(OK, I made those last two up just for double entendre’s sake – but you’ve all seen Facebook, you know what it’s like!)
But something has started on twitter. Sure, I’ve been playing the hashtag games. They’re fun, social and anyone can join in, but there’s a new game, Spymaster, that needs you to sign up before joining in, and it seems from the tweets that a lot of my friends have joined in.
Don’t get me wrong – I really want my friends to enjoy their time on whatever social network they choose. My only issue is with the fact that these games impose themselves on my tweetstream, just as the others did on my Facebook posts. Does this mean that we’ll all soon be taking quizzes and tweeting the results? Oh no, I forgot, we have the daily Twittascope instead!
Who knows, maybe Google Wave is my answer – but I’m going to have to wait a while for that. I only hope they actually make an Android app for it rather than waiting for someone to cobble something together like the gDocs app. Yes it works, but it’s Fugly and just not what you want to see on behalf of Google.
I may be disillusioned at the moment but I’m going to watch this trend for twitter games carefully. I won’t make a decision just yet though.
A whole new 140 Characters
So, I was thinking about 140 Characters is not enough (my blogspot site) and realised that it wasn’t as flexible as I wanted it to be. So I’ve decided to get my own domain, and here we are!
At the moment I’m getting to grips with WordPress – it’s a hugely powerful tool compared to what I’m used to so I’m just going to have to take my time and get used to it. I’m planning to get a mobile page set up to run alongside this so that it can be easily viewed on my G1 (Android) phone. I’m also going to be using the Ethan’s Corner pages for a few ideas (I’m planning something for #followfriday) as well as here in the blog, when I get used to the tools available.
As if a new site wasn’t difficult enough – I’m also planning to build a Linux based computer at the same time. (Cannibalising a couple of old computers that I can’t bear to throw out yet.) My only dealings with Linux up to now have been with the aforementioned Android but I also want to get a little netbook and most of them seem to run on Linux so it’s probably a better idea for me to play with an old rig first!
So I’d be grateful if you’ll bear with me while I get myself settled in, and I’ll see you on twitter!
