Twitter?

I am saying this as someone who recently joined twitter and thought she would love it: I absolutely do NOT get it.  I thought I would.  I'm a Facebook fiend, Pinterest pack rat and I go ga-ga for google but as of this very second, I can honestly say I'm just feeling perplexed by the whole thing. 

My first issue is the length of tweets.  I must admit to mostly following news-sites (BBC, The Guardian, CNN, NYT Book Review) but the gosh darn 140 character cut-off makes it quite difficult to get the gist of any story.  So you have to click the tweet, then click the link to actually get an idea of what's going on.  And doing that on a phone is just a pain in the neck due to download speed and text size.  It's easier for me to just go to the HuffPost site, or the BBC News site and read any of the darn articles I want to.

My other and main issue is, I'm not that interesting.  Why anyone would be so bored that they will "follow" my 140 character updates each day to see what I had for lunch, or (in today's case) what song woke me up on the radio this morning (which I realize is a bit hypocritical seeing that I'm writing these thoughts on a blog that's also not that interesting), is completely beyond me.  But joining the gosh-darn waste of time in the first place was for me anyway, not anyone else.  It's helping me look for the positive each day which is always a good thing.  For once I just might follow through on a resolution even if I'm completely baffled by whole crazy thing.