Twitter can be a good decision for some. But it was a really bad decision I made. I joined twitter in 2012 but never really used it till April of 2013. Now knowing me I should have never sign up for this Twitter application. I am such an internet addict and this really didn’t help me at all.

WHY THE HELL DID I DO THIS?

You cannot watch TV or go anywhere on the internet without anyone or anything mentioning Twitter or hashtag this or hashtag that. Seriously it’s everywhere! Even the President is on Twitter, everyone is there. It’s like a big party for really stupid thoughts. Or to promote things you don’t really care about. However, if you do have a business or author or really important, I can see how this can help you but I am none of those things, so it only really hurt me instead.

I am already a nervous person and think too much about random stuff. Hence here I am. At first it was really fun. I got to say dumb useless things in 140 characters or less and started to get starred and some followers. I was like wow, this is so much fun! Then after about a few months, big accounts started to follow me and they would retweet my tweets. I was like what? Wow, so fun! I am going to follow everyone who is following me no matter what or who they are or even what they represent. Once I started to do this, I started to gain a lot of followers. So many that I looked for another application that Twitter created to manage everyone that was following or had unfollowed me. I used unfollow.me to manage everyone and it was free. Also you have to sign up with Favstar to get the full experience of Twitter. Favstar is really to see who starred your tweets and you can give people trophies there.

I have to admit, it took me awhile to figure out everything. When I did my first retweet it was a rush. And I actually did a #FF. Which is Follow Friday and then you enter everyone you want others to see and follow. I only did that a couple times and was happy. Also I was getting DM’s from people and chatting with them that way. A DM is a direct message if you didn’t know. I have met really awesome people and really horrible people. I do have to say thank goodness Twitter has a blocking system in place for the horrible people. I was also thrilled to be mention in a tweet.

I figured as long as I was having fun this can’t hurt me in anyway. Right?

But then it started…….I would tweet and then think about it way too much! I would also be like “Why doesn’t anyone every retweet or star me anymore” or “OMG, I hope I didn’t offend anyone” etc. I was thinking about what to tweet what not to tweet. What if I don’t gain any more followers? I would think about Twitter so much, it was affecting me other ways in my life. Like spending time with my husband or family events and even sleeping. I thought about Twitter all the time!

I would check Twitter the first thing in the morning and it would be the last thing I would check before I went to bed. Even if I didn’t Tweet, I wanted to know what other people were saying or sharing all the time. It really was nonstop for me. I didn’t know I had a problem. My husband would be like you want talk about Twitter again and give a sigh when I would talk about it. But I really didn’t pay attention to it because I was a Twitter addict.

Literally one day in February sitting in bed thinking about Twitter like always; I thought about how this one little application was affecting me. Twitter made me nervous about what I was tweeting or what people thought about my tweets. And it hit me in the face! That I was spending too much time on this Twitter, what do I care about other people’s thoughts on Twitter? Most of the stuff on Twitter was just useless crap. Also I was sick of people DM’s about a lot stuff I didn’t care about or them harassing me because they didn’t like what I tweeted about or the fact that my avatar wasn’t a pic of me. Yes, I never put my pic on Twitter and I was really discreet about myself. Twitter was never the real me. Sure I would tweet about things that had happen to me or if I saw something funny but it wasn’t Danielle.

So, I thought about quitting Twitter for about two days and asked myself these questions: Do I need this? Is Twitter even fun anymore? What have I been missing in life because of Twitter? And the answers to these questions were easy to answer. No, I don’t need Twitter and it’s really not fun anymore. I have been missing a lot in life because of Twitter. After answering these questions, I did it. I quit, I didn’t even make it a year. But it was a lot wasted time there. I did however leave with a pretty good number of followers though. I had 606 followers but I didn’t even say goodbye and just quit.

And wow, I thought about it some more. I thought do I really want to do this? What I am going to do now? For two weeks I thought about joining again because I am a Twitter addict. I have a problem and Twitter was making it worst. But now after I quit, I do feel better. I know I am an internet addict but I don’t need Twitter to make it worst.

What I found out not being on Twitter is I have a lot more free time to pursue other things. I think about Twitter sometimes but it doesn’t invade my thoughts often. I am actually happier without it. Sure, I see it on TV or on the internet and of course hashtag this or that but I do not feel the need to be on Twitter anymore.

However, I am glad I went through that experience just to get it out of the way. Now, I honestly have an opinion about Twitter.

Goodbye Twitter forever!