My first clue about the importance of the last twenty-four hours was Thursday at a doctor’s office in Fresno. I saw the headline:
“Outreach efforts have been used to help region prepare for Friday.”
I was reading below the fold, below the main headline, with a picture of a clerk in Best Buy.
“Oh my goodness,” was my first thought, “have I missed the news of a massive storm coming to the region? Has Best Buy run out of flashlights? Will I get home on time? Am I ready?”
Add this new life stress to the really important projected crash of all things Twitter.
A major regional storm AND the Twitpocalypse?
How would I survive?
A flood of anxiety rushed over me in that doctors office. I took a breath and turned the newspaper to reveal the headline:
“Are you ready? The move to digital TV.”
There would be no tornado, no major earthquake, no tsunami. The world is going digital. How would we get by?
As I lay down to sleep last night I did wonder what this morning would bring: television and twitter-land chaos might leave me out of touch with the world.
I woke this morning and stumbled to the television set, blurry-eyed. I pressed the power button. Blue snow appeared on the screen. Could it be a sign of the Apocalypse? Could it be that we have no reception at all here in the Sequoia National Forest?
I wondered if I should Tweet just to try my luck. With a total of fourteen followers as of this morning, you have to wonder If a tweet falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, would it sound anything like the Twitpocalyse?
In the meantime, I opened Facebook and realized that in my Apocalyptic concerns I forgot about what was really important: the run on Facebook usernames.
Facebook.com/ Amanda.Rose could have been mine, but I missed it. By this morning in my post-Apocalyptic household, I could have been “Amanda.Rose2″ or “Amanda.Rose3.” I settled for my long-time email handle, amgrose, an anachronistic monument to 8-character email addresses given to me nearly two decades ago.
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@ Amazon.
I love your writing Amanda – fun post. I still don’t get the gist behind having a Fb user name anyway *shrug*
It’s all a contest. Did you get your name Leesie? Do you have a Leesie you have to compete with? LOL
(And it’s nice just to be able to tell friends your username so they can find you more easily.)