[Actually I have a Twitter account already and I follow maybe thirty users. About half of them are political and the other half are cultural or something. The question is shall I do tweeting myself.]
Pros
All the things I want to put as Facebook status updates and sometimes cannot justify, or feel guilty about because they are not really about my status, I can put here.
It could produce an online image of myself that is more succinct or accesible than this blog, and not walled in like Facebook. For marketing purposes.
People would be more likely to follow it than this blog or become my friends on Facebook.
It would be another way of writing and so help me improve my writing, especially flexibility of format. (It was hard to write that sentence without using the words platform, develop, or expression.)
I would be able to always follow my urge to link things, with no obligation whatsoever to add comment.
Cons
It would be joining an already heavy-laden bandwaggon.
The online image of myself that it produces could become embarassing or wildly misleading, no doubt like my Facebook page and this blog.
It would take time away from other things like showering and getting out of the door on time.
It would maybe encourage a continuing process of me taking on projected characteristics of people I read online, or somehow trying to become like them in the most superficial ways or even more.
I would have to decide whether something should be a Facebook status update or a Tweet.
I would be able to link things without really thinking about them or deciding which parts I like or why. It is like having the white space between the lines without the lines themselves.
[Decision day: Tuesday 21 December]
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