Social Media

I think I am close to maxed out on social media. Why yes, I am aware that’s kind of a First World problem.
I blog here (obviously) and copy it to MySpace. I have a personal blog elsewhere. I’m on Facebook, and I recently started writing at GoodReads (mostly the same stuff I post here on the weekends). It takes time.
Which is why I’m not on Twitter. I honestly can’t think of anything I have to say that couldn’t be said better at blog length, I don’t want to take the time and I don’t find Twitter all that appealing (that last is intended as a personal reaction, not an assessment of Twitter’s merits in general). Even if I had time to Tweet, I can’t quite imagine what I’d tweet (“got another article finished!” “completed another draft!”) anyone would find interesting.
This may not be a good career tactic. I know that one freelance gig went south at least partly because I have no Twitter feed (I don’t know that was the sole reason, but since the interviewer asked, it obviously played a factor). Will some editor down the road start frowning at my submission because I can’t tweet excitedly about publication? It’s a staple of writing advice that we have to be our own PR people—but it’s not like I have that much to publicize yet (and would I end up with enough followed to do much good?)
Of course, if someone said that Tweeting was a condition of publication, I’d have no qualms setting about it (well, some qualms, depending on the market, maybe). But otherwise, I really don’t feel it’s worth laying the groundwork now. If that turns out to be a mistake, c’est la vie, I guess.