Things I’ve Learned on Twitter

Someone said I should be able to learn quickly. There’s nothing wrong with that! Everyone knows the classic advice of making friends with new people but at the same time, those friends don’t come at the same pace to learn from. What the internet (and the platforms) don’t give is the time to practice taking in a world of avatars, memes, or non-fiction. There’s always no quick answer. Just wait for someone else to start.

This can be true in many fields of life. The one time I came on Twitter, I was in a very high school psychology class, but I had to take a computer science course online, so I never really knew much about computers, coding, and the coding process. I went on because there was always someone in my class that seemed so crazy, though I knew what they were up to. If you come across a bunch of the people you liked, there’s a good chance you’ll see the posts of at least one that didn’t belong to the class.

There’s no right or wrong way to say something. It’s too much work and too much effort to try and be any different on the internet. To make good things happen, it’s going to take a lot of time. And there’s a way to build a community, just by being YOU. But there’s so much more to it than that. During my stay on Twitter, I have been able to be friends with so many cool people, discovered new places to see funny things, and met many interesting and inspiring people.

I have also made plenty of connections with people I’ve never met before, but they’re all interesting, kind, good at sharing stories, and way more special than they may appear. Like any platform, there’s going to be conflict, but if you just have fun and go with the flow, it should be all right.

Your opinions and views are not writing material. Yes, everyone shares a story here, but we share experiences and words of our own and it’s not something that is fair. It’s one thing to get to see what your friends are posting. It’s something else to join the commenting, because it’s not reading material, like most of the results you got from an article that’s online. You were seeing how people responded to your comment or the story before reading it. You got the information you needed to think about the things and whatever thought processes. That’s different than seeing the reaction and then taking action.

This happens all the time on Twitter, but there’s a good chance that people you think are really fun and amazing, you’re not really close with them in person. And that’s okay. In order to build meaningful relationships on Twitter, you just gotta have a funny person in your life, or you are lucky enough to be writing about something that is someone's life, but it’s important to be a random person and see if you see commonalities.

Sometimes, being in a similar group is better than being with someone in another group. I have over 1,000 followers and if you take a look in the top 5 or 10, you can see a really trendy trend. A lot of people enjoy posting things and making comments, so your feed will look like a bunch of dog treats on the internet. However, you and whoever you follow don’t have to read the dog treats or comment about them, because someone else does. You can comment on someone else’s posts, on another’s stories, and share what you have to say in the groups.

There’s something that’s unique about the groups that make up our communities. No matter how different you are, you still get the same small handful of people with who you can be great friends. Most of all, whether you’re living in a bubble, in a world of polarized news, or somewhere that no one knows what’s happening, you have to be yourself on Twitter. I would love to be able to say this is one of the most helpful things about having a Twitter. But, sometimes, it’s good to have an online presence.

I won’t say that I got rich posting stories or comments, but I did get to share them with a group of people and make new friends. If you have any questions, check out the definitions and the over 1,000 people that agreed with me, and I encourage you to follow me on Twitter and Facebook.