dorsetgirl | Somebody Shoot That Damn' Bird

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I'm a great believer in live and let live - whatever people want to do in the privacy of their own home is up to them. But...

Really, all I have time and strength for at 05:50am is:

(i) check the email to see if anyone's been nice about my fic overnight (NINETEEN comments for "On This Day" - best EVAR!), then

(ii) a quick glance to see if anyone has posted anything I really need to know (yes, I do count

ac_123's review of the LOM!US finale *shudder / boggles eyes* in that category). Then it's on to checking the kids' train is running, do their money and get them up.

But unfortunately, the latest thing on Twitter appears to be downloading a day's worth of tweets to a blog. And the time difference between here and the US means that every morning I open my friendslist to find that the first thing up is my US flisters' "What I Did Today".

I've largely let the Twitter phenomenon pass me by; I'll follow the occasional link to something touted as interesting, but seriously, if I wanted to know what someone was doing every ten minutes, I'd move in, right?

It just does my brain in for some reason to have all that fine detail of other people's days taking up my whole screen. No, I don't know why, but I've given it a week and I still can't get used to it. DOES NOT WANT.

So I'm sorry, and please don't take offence, but when I can work out how to do it, anyone whose Tweets come up on my friendslist before 8-30am is going to be moved to a new "Check once a day when I'm feeling chilled" group. Which means I might miss things I really wanted to read. Sad, but there you go - sanity comes first. If I can remember where I put it.