{"id":479,"date":"2009-04-13T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2009-04-13T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T21:40:16","slug":"top-six-reasons-im-resisting-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Top Six Reasons I&#8217;m Resisting Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Twitter is the new way people are finding out about things, I guess I&#8217;m going to have to start doing it eventually.  But so far I&#8217;m resisting, and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>6. I already have to &#8220;hide&#8221; three quarters of my Facebook friends because I don&#8217;t have time to read their announcements of &#8220;I&#8217;m off to the Post Office&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m making lentil soup tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. Speaking of food, I don&#8217;t know if I can afford another mouth to feed.  With Facebook, two Myspace pages, a professional website, professional blog, personal blog, band websites, rehearsals, hustling for work, etc., etc. &#8212; not to mention those holdovers from a primitive era, actually <i>working<\/i> and <i>having a social life<\/i> &#8212; it&#8217;s hard to swallow the idea of hooking up yet another needy pipeline I must pump full of something on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>4. Unless I&#8217;m talking about birds, I refuse to do anything requiring me to use the word &#8220;tweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. I like to maintain an inflated sense of my own importance, so I&#8217;m worried that no matter how many (or few) people might follow me on Twitter, it will never be enough.<\/p>\n<p>2. Just to be plain ornery.<\/p>\n<p>And the Number One reason I&#8217;m resisting Twitter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Look outside &#8212; it&#8217;s a beautiful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Twitter is the new way people are finding out about things, I guess I&#8217;m going to have to start doing it eventually. But so far I&#8217;m resisting, and here&#8217;s why. 6. I already have to &#8220;hide&#8221; three quarters of my Facebook friends because I don&#8217;t have time to read their announcements of &#8220;I&#8217;m off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top Six Reasons I&#8217;m Resisting Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}