On Fat Tuesday this year I was puzzling over what I should give up for Lent.  I couldn’t decide and I couldn’t decide, until I heard Leo Laporte of TWiT joke that he should give up Twitter.  So I thought why not?  Heck I’ll take it a step further and cut out all social networking from my digital life for over a month.  Well, at the time of this writing I’m within a week of Easter and I just wanted to share how it went.

When I started this whole experiment I assumed that giving up Facebook would be the hardest part.  Cutting ties with all of the people I know in real life?  That has to be worse than giving up people I’ve probably never met.  That said, I have to say, keeping away from Twitter was as struggle!  Everyone has a twitter page these days and that tends to be what they want to plug 9 out of 10 times.  Do you want to hear what “so-and-so” is up to these days?  You better be on Twitter!

Personally I’m shocked by this development.  I  never would have thought I’d be more secure with folks on Twitter than I would be with others, whom I know, on Facebook.