Twitter me this.....

So, how many of us bloggers also use Twitter?  And how many of us really know what we are doing?

Don't beat me up here, I like Twitter.  It's just that Twitter has become more of a celebrity driven/death announcing/new job bragging site that I think was originally intended.

Let's go a bit deeper.  How many of us were really still fans of Gary Coleman (of Arnold fame), who felt an overwhelming outpouring of grief when he recently passed away?  I am not stating that his death was not sad, all deaths are sad.  What I am saying is that I must have seen over 200 tweets from folks practically throwing themselves in his grave.  I mean, come on - let's be realistic.  Same kind of thing with any death - all the "celebrities" on Twitter feel the need to comment.  Are they all just one big friend universe?  Does anyone really think that these folks hung out together?

Let's look at celebrity postings - are we to assume that most of these folks are telling us something important or is it just a "really, I am funny - read my tweets" vibe.  Should I be able to tell the difference between comedy tweets and just regular tweets?   Why should I have to think that hard?

Business - well that's a whole other can of worms.  Tweet me your specials - ok.  Tweet me your newest blog posts - ok.  Tweet me a question or a poll - I'd rather check your website or Facebook page.  Do you need to tweet that "you don't like cash payments" or that "just finished a celeb's home"?  Does that make you stand above the crowd?  Well, not for me....and I don't think I am alone.  I think it just show we don't know what we are doing with Twitter.

And something else that makes my point - the book in this post.  It's an interesting thought that you could use Twitter for marketing, but I just don't think it works the same way as Facebook - unless you have several thousand followers.  Most small businesses don't. 

I'll stick with Facebook for my business.  Twitter for some business but mostly for fun. 

And I need to clean up my following list - especially if it makes me this aggravated.

After Prom - saves lives

So, it's now 5:30 in the morning and we have been home for about 20 minutes.  My DH is already upstairs asleep, but I am still too awake from the night to nod off quite yet.

Tonight was another milestone for my DS - Senior Prom.  With Senior Prom come the After Prom experience.  Do any of you have an after prom in your high school?  I have to admit that I never heard of it until we moved up here.

In my day (boy that sounds old!) after prom was dragging your half drunk butt down the shore with 20 of your closest friends for a weekend of partying.  Left the prom at midnight, changed in the car and drove all night.  Now the other thing was that the drinking age then was 18 and well, I was 18 that year.

But up here in Central NJ, for the past 23 years our high school has held an after prom lock in type party.  The kids go to prom, come home, change and go to the high school for fun, food and prizes until 6:00 am.  Then they sleep, wake up, pile in cars and go down the shore for the weekend (and apparently, Monday).

It was pretty amazing.  A casino room with prizes.  Indoor laser tag and other fun bouncy type stuff.  Guitar Hero contests and basketball shooting.  A very funny hypnotist - he had the kids talking Chinese..lol. 

We actually started working on this when school started in September.  Bingo nights, many calls to local businesses and then for the last month the DH and I were in the food committee.  We call or visited every restaurant, fast food and store in a 15 mile radius.  Then we had to pick everything tonight.  Then DH took a nap.  12:45am - off to the high school for 5 hours of kitchen duty.

And boy can theses kids eat.  First it was finger food, then Pasta, wings, sandwiches and such.  At 4:00 am we started putting out breakfast and desserts - cookies, muffins, bagels and such.  Leftover food is donated to a local food bank.

What a generous outpouring from businesses, from parents and mainly from the organizers.  Congrats to all for a great 24th year. 

For after proms - and saving lives.   Even if we are all exhausted......