Four-Question Social Networking Poll

[rsadelle]

[Poll #1538532]

Comments

[icanbreakthesky.livejournal.com]

I'm really vague about fandom things on twitter, but I do mention progress on fics and stuff. I'm a_okay over there if you want to add me.

Why wouldn't fic about Mike Carden be awesome? :P

[rsadelle]

I am very much the opposite of vague. (For example, I wrote a thousand words of Mike/Kevin BDSM over Twitter this weekend.)

*snicker* That answer is there for a specific person who I suspect likes fic via Twitter but does not like Mike.

[icanbreakthesky.livejournal.com]

That's impressive! I get too frustrated by the character limit to say much.

Poor Mike :P

[rsadelle]

I think the character limit really changes the style (at least if you're like me and you like complex sentences, and if you don't break sentences across posts), which makes for an interesting writing experience.

[dine.livejournal.com]

I fail at social networking!

I have a Twitter account, but have never posted anything to it, and haven't even looked at anyone I 'follow' for months. have no Facebook and no interest in it - LJ/DW keep me in touch with those in which I'm most interested, and I just can't see any benefit (for me)

[rsadelle]

Different people have different social networking needs! I love Twitter because I can just blab on about whatever without feeling like it needs to actually be substantive (which is how I treat LJ). My original intent in getting MySpace/Facebook accounts was to keep in touch with the cousins on one side of my family. Now, I'm Facebook friends with quite a collection of people, and I find it useful as a very low-key way to keep up with the people I want to keep up with.

[stevie-roch.livejournal.com]

Sorry, Ruth, due to how my brain works I had to answer all bird.

[rsadelle]

*snicker* I did know, going in, that there would be people tempted to choose the funny answer instead of their real answer.

[allegram.livejournal.com]

Icon love! And I chose all the bird answers too, except for some reason the first question, where my brain let me answer seriously, I wonder why?

[rsadelle]

Maybe that's the only one you had a serious answer for?

[megyal]

People write fic on Twitter?!

[rsadelle]

Well, I do. I don't know about other people.

[megyal]

Hmm. I should really give that a shot!

[rsadelle]

It's definitely interesting. If you don't break sentences over tweets, it can be a challenge. On the other hand, sometimes a tiny Twitter box is less intimidating than a real document. And I feel less guilty writing into Twitter than into a new document when I have things I'm supposed to be working on. The biggest hassle is copying and pasting it into a real document later. I wrote most of "Three Days Home" on Twitter and then decided it was too slow when I got to the sex scene. Also, I have two Twitter accounts so I can do this kind of thing with one and follow/reply to celebrities (and celebrity friends and family) without worrying they might see it.

[megyal]

I should really try it. It sounds like... well, good streamline training, I guess!

[rsadelle]

It's definitely that! I often have to rework sentences to make them fit.