alex.cvitanovic

You are prob­a­bly aware that last sun­day I com­mited to spend­ing the week away from twit­ter and face­book [#twibat­ti­cal], to see what life would be like with­out these social media tools.

The week was Pure AwesomeSauce.

It was lib­er­at­ing, free. I was untied from most com­mu­ni­ca­tion. No @ replies, no-one “lik­ing” my sta­tuses every few min­utes. At one point I even found myself read­ing a news­pa­per at the cof­fee shop. Not bad.

I spent many solemn moments with myself, unable to con­tact the out­side world [apart from the archaic SMS tech­nol­ogy on my phone]. My mind would stop to pon­der about the most unusual things [what is the mean­ing of life, why is the sky blue, is there a good recy­cled toilet-paper option?]. I was alone with myself, Just me and my thoughts.

But was my week more pro­duc­tive, was it “bet­ter” with­out twit­ter? I would have to say no. I quite enjoy my twit­ter friend­ships. The jokes, the long @reply trails, the infor­ma­tive arti­cles and blogs. I love find­ing out whats hap­pen­ing on the other side of the world, as it happens.

Sure, I didnt wake up to a plethora of mes­sages each morn­ing [which was rather lib­er­at­ing]. But I also didn’t get to con­nect, love and grow with the peo­ple in my world like I nor­mally do. In my view it can be fun to know what movie your boss just walked out of, and it cer­tainly is great to fol­low your leader’s mes­sages through­out the week and not just on a sunday.

Twit­ter adds value to my life. It’s the con­nec­tion to my friends when I nor­mally wouldn’t be able to connect.

Its the sauce on my steak. It’s the cheese in my cake. Its a lit­tle extra spice that makes exis­tence extra-nice. Its the… well you get the idea.

Ver­dict: Im twitter-whipped [twipped?]

Oh, and here are some of the things I didn’t get to share with you over the last week:

- I said HELLO to a lady walk­ing her dog out­side our house. She ignored me. I said HELLO again, a lit­tle louder this time. She pro­ceeded to turn her head way from me.

My imag­i­na­tion visu­alised me revers­ing over her pooch with my mit­subishi mirage. My logic kicked in and told me not to, how­ever pleas­ing it may be.

- I found a new Jason Mraz album [Its not “new” per se, but it was to me] [itunes — tracks 13 to 26]

- I had sev­eral hun­dred philo­soph­i­cal thoughts worth shar­ing. I have since for­got­ten almost all of them.

- I ren­dered a video with media offline. it went live. snap. qual­ity control?

- A dead man put out a movie. #zom­bie? #MJ

- #NoGlee #NoHouse = #SadAlex

- “thank­fully we’ve only got lower limb injuries” — [news.com.au]

- The inter­net had a birthday

- I lost my “Blu ray vir­gin­ity” to star-trek. it was FLIPPING AWESOME.

- I NEED one of these [immerz.com]

- I defi­natly DO NOT need to go bun­jee jump­ing in Aca­pulco

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