How to Cheat on Twitter with your Real Life



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Everyone hates a cheater, but sometimes it feels so good……. wait, let me explain.

I love you Twitter, but there’s someone else.

I’m absolutely head over heels in love with Twitter, I’m not really a Facebook kind of girl. I mean, I dabble from time to time but my first love is Twitter. I have Twitter friends, Twitter family, and Twitter crushes, but lately none of that has been lighting my fire. Just like your first love telling you he “met someone else,” the love grows cold. I know I’m being a bit dramatic, but I have a point.

I’ve had so much going on in the “real world” that I haven’t been interested in checking the pulse of Twitter. Like many people, I get most of my news from Twitter. I follow newspapers and get the latest hot topics from the Twitterverse. There’s nothing like sitting down to a hashtag party to analyze the couture foolishness of the Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Redefining the Traditional Ways of Living

Every day, my grandfather used to take the morning and evening paper. It seems so incredible to think about two issues of the daily paper. I remember him sitting in his chair, after work, with the paper spread out on his lap while watching the news on TV. That was about a high-tech as it got for him. Fast forward twenty years, and I watch TV, hold court on Twitter, surf the net on my phone, all while trying to hold an intelligent conversation with my honey. My grandfather would think all this online interaction a bunch of nonsense….but is it? People are falling in love online, hell they even cheat online. Modern day empires rise and fall online (Justin Bieber anyone?),  More and more, we’re hearing how important it is to be connected and have a kick-ass social media foot print. As much as I love social media, it’s sometimes so damn overwhelming.

The Rules Keep Changing Who’s Keeping Score?

Let Fast Company tell it, none of us are really master’s of social media anyway. Don’t tell all the people who’ve spent thousands on online social media degrees. For all the experts who would make you think you’re a Neanderthal if you don’t know what Twitter’s new apps mean for developers, suck it!  No really, suck it.  Because sometimes we just want to go see a movie and not tell the world about it on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, yadda yadda. (I do have a crush on Pinterest though, but don’t tell anyone.)

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Hillerie Camille

I’m a social media, and reality show obsessed, public relations professional who loves tech and pop culture. I author a Life and Style Blog teaching women how to kill it at work. In my spare time, I mentor an amazing group of Mass Communication Students at Grambling State University. I also love traveling, so maybe I’ll see you around.

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  • http://twitter.com/leaderswest Jim Dougherty

    @HillerieCamille – I LOVE this. The headline is perfect, the copy is one of my favorites, I love the Real Housewives of Atlanta (well, Dwight), and frankly the suggestion that the social media experts “suck it” is so refreshing (kind of like a bubble bursting). You rock!!!! Thanks for sharing this!

  • http://barrettrossie.com/ Barrett Rossie

    Very funny Hillerie, I can relate!

  • http://www.indigogirl.co.uk/ Kittie at Indigo Girl

    Brilliant! Thanks for starting my evening off with a chuckle.

  • http://twitter.com/OfficialSalomeC Salome Colgan

    So true! It’s a catch 22, you want to stay relevant but it can get exhausting!

  • Hillerie Camille

    It’s so true right. I feel like i’m never doing enough or doing it right, so like Ray said, “I make it do what it do baby.”

  • Hillerie Camille

    Vacation anyone!

  • Hillerie Patton

    Thanks suga pie!

  • Hillerie Camille

    Jim, thanks for lighting my fire! I needed it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/renpro Rene H. Provencher

    I’m finding that I love all smart, gorgeous, sweet tough ladies.

  • http://twitter.com/EveGelman Eve Gelman

    Hillerie.. Thank you for the laugh. I better rethink paying for that online masters degree in Facebooking?

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