trendpreneur

Warning! This post is going in a slightly different direction than envisaged.

I originally loaded up Wordpress, opened Facebook in a new tab and was about to unlink my Twitter status from my Facebook updates. I felt I was spamming Facebook too much, that fear of spamming ‘real’ friends was conflicting with the desire to connect with people using @replies on Twitter, and that I would be able to talk more freely on Twitter as a result.

For example, if I start evangelising about social media and my business on Twitter, I don’t really think my school friends need to see it. Most Facebook status updates are for socialising – “I’m tired” prompts “hugs” in reply – not self promotion.

However, this all changed in the minute it took me to log into Facebook and browse some recent updates. I posted a tweet commenting that I’m looking for paid writing work (economic crisis, don’tchaknow) and someone gets back to me within five minutes after seeing the tweet appear on Facebook.

Guess I won’t decouple my social identities after all. I’ll just have to keep thinking before I write, which sometimes defeats the object with these platforms.