I am a cog. This is my blog.

OK so I like to tweet out my foursquare locations occasionally. I try and remember to turn off the Facebook and Twitter feeds when I do but you know what? I forget sometimes. So what. I’m having fun gathering badges. I really dig the website blip.fm. In addition to listening to playlists of music that you and other users have created, you can “blip” a song out to the folks following you on Blip as well as all your connected socials networks. I really never turn off the feeds for that. You see I love music. It’s a big part of my personality, and my friends and those that follow me know that. If folks don’t like that I blip then don’t read my posts or un-follow me. If people on Facebook are getting annoyed at my sometimes (really, only sometimes) incessant blipping, than hide my posts or, ask if we’re really friends, and if not un-friend me. Hey no hard feelings. I didn’t realize that a link to the Sleigh Bells song “Infinity Guitars” would freak you out so much.

I get it that Twitter is used for marketing, (both yourself and to many others) and business and breaking news and communication but there is also a playfulness and an expressionism that IMHO was the basis of why Twitter was created. If I am excited that my inbox is finally cleared of those 983 unread emails and Twitter allows me to express that moment of joy then guess what? Your going to hear about it. If I’ve had something not so good happen to me, Twitter lets me unburden myself by allowing me to shout my anger/fear/frustrations/sadness out to the world. It doesn’t even matter if anyone is even listening. It helps.

There is no wrong way to use Twitter and I am tired of pontificators who keep telling people there are only a few right ways. Get over yourself. It’s an outlet. It’s a micro-blog. It’s a soapbox and a forum. It’s what people want to use it for. OK?

I’m just a blipping, four-squaring cog and this is my blog.