I tried avoiding the tweeting temptress for as long as I could. Where Facebook is more like a steady boyfriend, Twitter is the harlequin of online social networking. It is an electronic wild frontier, a place where literally anyone (300 million users send out 1.6 billion search queries per day!) is free to dissect the minutia of their day-to-day lives, craft quirky 140-character observations and blast them out into the ether with zero restrictions. With my alarming lack of self censorship and loose comedic boundaries, the world is simply a better place without me blurting out asinine observations every hour of the day. But then I finally succumbed to Twitter, albeit in the most unlikely place possible: an elementary school yard.
METRO columnist Todd Smith, writing about how he recently joined Twitter.
