Twitter is not for personal interactions

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From: "Josephine Gavignet" <josephinegavignet@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 23, 2010 9:19 PM
Subject: Twitter is not for personal interactions
To: "Josephine Gavignet" <josephinegavignet@gmail.com>

Twitter is not for personal interactions

Ok so I have gone back to tweeting. It feels nice. Just by going on there and not really doing anything I have learned a lot by clicking on articles from the great entities I follow. Namely hubspot, mashable and what not. I have been getting some new followers which is nice, not all spammers even if they still represent a fair amount of my daily new "fans". What I have come to conclusion with is that well twitter is NOT for personal interactions. I am not saying it is not good for it, I am just saying that we don't want to see it here. Well now you can decide to stop reading this article, I won't mind, but something tells me you won't because if you clicked on this article it's because you're somewhat interested by what people have to say about twitter, or by things I write in general. So well here goes, I don't believe twitter is the place where you broadcast about what you ate at lunch or that your boss sucks. If your friends want to read about that on facebook ( and have not yet hidden you from their newsfeed) that's fine but us on Twitter who ended up on your profile because you once seemed worthy of our clicking on "follow", if and when we don't know you ( or your boss, if I did that would maybe interest me but only for reporting purposes) we honestly don't give a bee's sting of what you are doing.
My point here is that we all know what twitter is for. Maybe it was not Evan Williams' first and foremost thought when he created it but it is now. When I browse twitter, and it's the same for many if my counterparts, it is either because I want to read good and interesting things or for job purpose (which is ultimately good and interesting considering my job is web marketing) and we don't want twitter to become the place where you go if your friends are getting bored of your facebook status updates that are unreasonably frequent. I have to admit I've done this in the past and then you come to realize that you can always text it to the person you are really looking to get a reaction from. Or say just share it face to face. You should try. The problem with twitter is that we spent the last year or so not taking it seriously because nobody was using it. It was just the new fancy thing. But well now everybody at least knows it and chances are they are using it. For God's sake my parents know about it. So now twitter is becoming a valuable source of information and a much more professional tool. Because everybody can read about you when you use ashtags to share about your lunch experience. And that would be my final point: everybody can read about you. For the rest, keep a diary. And please not a blog.

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Quick update

So here it goes, I know it's been a while I have not posted here and I apologize for this lack of words from me.

Well if I have to give you an excuse (and I feel the few people who actually read my thing deserve it for their support) I could tell you that I have been working a lot (for the past three weeks) and enjoying the summer in Boston (read "the heat") as most as I could. I could also tell you that I have been spending less time in front of my computer and more time in front of...well...tv (not better), or reading. I'd probably be lying. Truth is I was confronted to a major writer's block and the fact that I write in both languages does not help. I have to be honest with you and tell you I have been writing in French, very happy that my writing style had not completely gone out of my mind, and have just been too lazy to translate it. Because well I don't know who reads that blog but I know that most of the people I share it with know English well enough to read what I have to say. The French version of that sentence is unfortunately not true.

I have a bunch of stuff to update you with such as my new awesome job but I doubt that you are here to read about that. So just a quick update: job is awesome, onboarding (thank you Murielle for teaching me that word) has been great and I have a lot of things to do there. I feel I am learning a lot and I hope my footprint is as significant for them as it is for me. I don't mind the long commute as it gets me to read much more and write in my brand new Moleskine notebook. Also my job gives me the great feeling that the 4 years of study I've gone through were not pointless. And that's a good point considering I am at D-45 from starting to pay off my loans. Feel free to check out what we do by going on www.everestpoker.fr or on www.facebook.com/everestpokerFR.

On top of that Sean left last friday so the past weeks have been all about enjoying Boston knowing I would not see a bunch of my friends (including Sean) for a long time. However the good thing is that old time friends are soon going to replace the new found friends that left as much as they can as Damien is coming to Boston in now 2 weeks, Nicolas is moving to Ithaca in 3 weeks and I also have in sight to see my cousin Helene, visit Boston for a few days, former coworker and current artist Eva. So all in all, the summer has been and looks to be quite good. Hyacinthe also came to visit so life seems to get in shape as I move on with my post-graduation blues (almost cured). My planned trips include NYC, Newport Folk Festival, Philadelphia, Mexico, San Francisco and Toronto. Also with Simon coming back to Montreal in September, I might add this to the list. The fact that I am not allowed to leave the US or its neighbors Canada and Mexico for Visa purposes for another undetermined period gracefully forces me to visit places other than my parent's house in France. And that is a good feeling. 

So just a quick update on my life. I am still in deep writer's block coma but I felt I ought you some pixels being used. I am working on another post more interesting than this one. Consider it a teaser. Promised.

Yours truly,

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