James Poling

While I’ve had a Twitter account for quite a while now, I’ve only recently begun to Tweet.  In fact you can probably see my latest tweet over in the right sidebar if you care to look.  It’s probably some inane thing that I am doing or, more than likely, responding to something someone else is doing.  The one definitive thing I’ve discovered since I’ve been using Twitter is that I’m almost too boring to actually answer the question, “What are you doing?”

I have to admit though it is pretty addicting to be able to pop onto Twitterrific on my iPhone at virtually anytime and see what all 24 people I’m following (only like 4 of which I actually know) are doing.  

The trouble I am having in my brief, 204 post, Tweetering experience is that I often find myself thinking of Twitter and wanting to do somthing with it when I’m bored with nothing else to do.  On the rare times I am actually doing something that may be worthwhile to Tweet I don’t think of Tweeting.  

I feel like I’ve spent a good part of my life trying to learn how to be present, how to live in the moment and I’m wondering if Twitter is trying to rip that away from me.  

Unfortunately, through no fault of Twitter (yet), I’m nowhere near reaching my zen, but I’m wondering if apps like Twitter help me stop and memorialize a moment and take it in, or whether they just completely take me out of it.

My question is, to all those people out there that are way more adept at Twitter than myself, is whether or not they find themselves being taken out of the moment when they stop to tweet?