Is it spring? I don’t know – it could be? I have no idea how time passes.

Anyways, lately I have been taking months off things; normally food related. I have gone gluten free, diary free, meat free for a month each and I find out exactly what those things to do me and how my body feels when it has those items in (or not in) my system. BUT this month is a little different because I am taking time off of facebook and twitter. YES YOU HEARD ME RIGHT! I am taking time off of those two social networks for about a month (28 days really) to see what my experience will be like.

Recently I was mugged, and there is something that happens to you when you get one or several knives pulled on you by one or several people threatening your life — your perspective shifts. You start to see how you have lived your life, and how you should live your life. You start to think about if you really should care so much about this or that and what really matters. You rip down aspects of yourself and you rebuild new ones hopefully stronger and with more conviction. It is honestly interesting to go through an experience where you could have just as easily had your throat slit instead of repeatedly kicked in ribs — which ended up being what happened to me. I came out of that experience really starting to think what could possibly be the point of tweeting or facebooking without ever actually speaking to people? How much technology between two people is to much technology? I even wondered if I actually had any real relationships with anyone anymore? So building on all these thoughts I have come to this month’s break.

Part of this is I actually want to figure out what roll twitter and FB have in my life? So I have decided to take the pageantry and performance out of twitter and continue to tweet but the old fashioned way! With pen and paper!!! YAY!!!

I am basically going to go through my day and “tweet” – in the above notebooks – what I would normally online, and see what ends up happening. A lot of what I do end up putting on twitter is (I think) for me, just a dump of my frustrations and a way to stream my internal monologue, but I also suspect that I spend a good amount of time looking for validation and approval for being witty and hilarious — aka the performance part of twitter.

When this is all said and done, I want to hopefully discover what is more important to me about twitter, the interaction? the journaling aspects? or the performance aspects? And then be able to grow in different areas to help better myself though the utilization (or non-utilization) of these tools.