I've been thinking about doing this for a while and figured what the heck, lets give it a go. Twitter has been a wonderful tool for communication however it's had some unexpected impacts on how I live.
I have been using it to feed the part of me that desires attention and this side has kept on growing at a steady rate. This is not the side that trolls for attention (normally), it's the part of me that seeks validation, which experience has taught me rarely comes from the Internet.
Twitter has also become a common distraction for me, which is fine to a point as everyone needs something for their idle mind to do but I think that point has passed and I'm into territory where I'm better off without it. Add into this the inability for me to see @replies from people I do follow to people I don't follow and Twitter loses that very valuable way for me to meet new people.
So, I'm going to try going one month without tweeting. This isn't a ban for myself of all twitter (I won't be blocking my access to it, tweets can have lots of useful stuff in them). I just won't tweet from 20th June 2009 to 20th July 2009 (inclusive). I will still get emails about DMs and respond as needed.
I will of course fall back to the other forms of communication I have available to me: txt messaging, email, MSN and phone. In addition there are the ones I have but don't really use: blag comments, facebook, bebo, carrier pidgin, etc.
At the end of the month (if I realised it has passed) I'll decide if I come back or just let my account go idle.
