It sounds stupid, but every day I write a new sentence: "Tyler is [fill in the blank]" at the top of the page. It might just be "Tyler is happy to be home again," or "Tyler is eating Rainier cherries." Once a day, no more and no less. It doesn’t matter how few or how many people are reading it. It feels like an exercise in gratitude, which it is. It is also an exercise in micro-blogging.
Here is Gretchen Rubin on the one-sentence journal.
For at least the next week, however, I’ll be keeping my sentence the same.
Due to Facebook Newsfeeds I would say your status is at least glanced at by all of your Facebook friends.
This sounds a lot like Twitter, you should get an account and share your one sentence updates/’expressions in gratitude’ with everyone else who is doing so. I have to admit though, that I too love it!
Yes, Twitter is way better. Sadly, there is path-dependence…
I have this weird giggly schoolgirl thing going on every time I see Tyler Cowen in my friends list. Somehow it’s more tangible than my other brushes with greatness.
I’m weird.
Any other Facebook luddites out there? Please tell me I’m not alone on the road to fogeydom. It’s not that I don’t believe the hype… I don’t even understand what the hype is.
…I’m still trying to figure out why I avoid facebook like the plague. There seems to be a small gap in ages where facebook is a non-entity (and I’m in that age range). It’s about, oh…born in 77-78. Maybe a bit larger. I think the issue there is, when these things first ‘appeared’ (facebook and myspace), the ‘younger kids’ were doing it, and the 77-78′s were juniors/seniors in college, or maybe a year or two out of college. It seemed like a dumb kid thing.
Then it took off, and we/I are still seeing it as a bit of a dumb kid thing, though we’re being overruled daily by the everyone that is using it.
Being just off the razor edge of technology is a bitch.
“There seems to be a small gap in ages where facebook is a non-entity (and I’m in that age range). It’s about, oh…born in 77-78.”
There is a facebook group called “Unlike 99% of other facebook users, I was born in the 1970s”
Facebook is by far the cleanest and best of all the “networking” sites, in my opinion. Its fun, low-key, use as you wish. You can limit what people can see in a very customizable way (e.g. in case employers search and you don’t want them to know about your personal antics) and even within your friends (e.g. people you have only met once or twice can see a more limited version, with some of your antics) etc. I like that.
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