This post was written a while ago in anticipation of NaNoWriMo.
Over at The Corner In The Middle, the author (a Midwestern 2L) has deleted his Twitter account and has cut back on his Facebook and MySpace time. The reasons? He wasn’t getting value out of Twitter, and was using Facebook for the types of things Twitter is best at. The Facebook and MySpace usage fell off because he wasn’t getting any new information about anyone he knew:
I know what [my friends] are doing: studying, poking fun at fellow students, working, eating, napping, writing papers, watching the Office, and everything else we do; they are my friends, we are friends because we do the same things.
Being a little overwhelmed, frustrated, or mystified by social networking isn’t just a problem for law students. But it can especially be an issue for law students who think they might miss out on something but end up procrastinating or wasting time on social networking sites more than they get value out of them.
As a law student, don’t waste your time with something you don’t see the value in. What social networking is teaching us is that there are many different avenues to getting what you want, even if they aren’t necessarily social media.
Recognize that you might be giving something up. But if Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, or even all of these sites are wasting time more than helping you, ditch them.
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I did end up killing the facebook me. I just found your trackback, and wanted to say thanks for mentioning me in your page. Keep writing, the net needs more honest writers!