I get this weird fear when I take a long time off from work. When I stop tweeting and posting pithy bits on Facebook and Twitter, I start worrying that people forget I exist. I mean, do I really exist if people aren’t liking or retweeting my thoughts?
So that leads me to posting silly pictures or random thoughts in order to get people to hear me. As long as they hear me, they know I’m there.
I know. I have issues. But I’ve decided something new I want to try. It’s my new years resolution.
I’ve decided I’ll no longer tweet reacting to that fear. I’m no longer going to fill the twitter-waves with useless junk just to remind people I exist.
From now on, I’m only tweeting when I have something I want to share and when I want to contribute a thought that enriches people’s lives. I’m no longer tweeting for myself and my ego needs. I’m not tweeting to truly help my audience. I want them to see a piece of me or think a thought that contributes to their well-being.
I think there are too many of us who tweet to exist. That, first of all, contributes to a bunch of junk on the internet. But more than that, it makes us live shallow lives. We get our self esteem from a click. That’s a lousy and fleeting self image.
I choose to break that.
Maybe I’m the only one who needs to make this new years resolution. But maybe not.
Evaluate yourself. Where do you get your self esteem from online? Do you tweet to exist? Do you need to stop?
