If you’ve read anything I written about my life with computers, you know that at best my battle with new technology is a draw. In other words, using a new technical concept is my kryptonite. Last week, in my on-going battle, I had a loss, a most embarrassing loss.
I am on tweeter and I confess the concept is new, at least to me. But I was intrigued that you can “tweet” from your mobile phone, so the other night I set up my phone for Twitter. Yay, I’m winning, I think to myself. Well, it turns out that I was being sucker punched.
Because I didn’t want to get tweets from, say Senator McCain telling me that he is doing a TV interview in an hour, I turned off the notifications for the phone. Then I read (or miss-read) where I could turn on selective tweets. So I said to myself, this would be cool. So I tweet (on my phone) “on username” and went to bed. I did not know until the next morning that I had broadcast to the world (or at least to those who read my 140 character essays), in response the generic Twitter question: “What are you doing;” my answer of “I am on [insert female username here].”
I was horrified when I saw that. Apologies were issued, forgiveness was received and I have promised myself I will not pick up sharp objects in the future. After all, I’m so bad at new tech that even Twitter owns me.
*snicker*