“There is that which is too much” Arthur, in the probably never-to-be-released script So That’s Life by Trey Pennington
You know I love social media, especially Twitter. The speed, volume, intensity, breadth…so many cool people, incredible ideas, fantastic expressions of passion, creativity, ingenuity, compassion. Sometimes, I suppose, it can be too much.
A friend of mine, Pete Hansen, a brilliant videographer with a passion for relieving the suffering in Liberia, followed me on Twitter. A few days later he wrote to me (via Facebook), “Do you do anything but tweet? I got, like, 20 tweets from you yesterday. You filled up my screen!”
When I checked, he was only following a few people. I was, by a long shot, the most prolific tweeter on his list. The solution, I suggested, was for him to follow a lot more people! (that way my tweets wouldn’t seem so intense)
Maybe it IS the case that we can overwhelm people with too much communication.
Jay Smooth experienced something similar. His video recounts his encounter with too many caramels. The video is a beautiful model of storytelling and creativity. After I watched this one, I was compelled to seek out more of his videos. Now if I could only craft tweets as compelling as his videos…
Note: Sometimes you gotta just ignore “what that little hater” inside your head is telling you and just do it.
