My Wife is Brilliant
by Kyle Flaherty on Oct.03, 2008, under Social Media
Now there is a title that will score me points, but it also happens to be true. Like many of us in the social media world we often time leave behind, in our Twitter, Facebook, Ning, Skype, Blogging wake, our “social media widow/er”.My wife has always been intrigued by all the stuff I do online and has even gotten into the act on Facebook, but as I settled in to watch another #redsox playoff game Wednesday night with hundreds of my closest friends on Twitter there is simply a roll of the eyes and an understanding laugh.
As the game started I showed her my TweetStats from the last year and the HUGE spike from last October:
Pretty dramatic rise and all due to a long World Series run by the Sox and immediately as the first game of this October started I was talking with other folks on Twitter about the game. I mentioned though that I was surprised that I had such a huge spike simply for the Sox, since I’m an even bigger football fan. My wife’s response:
“Twitter is to baseball what blogging is to football. Baseball occurs nearly everyday for six months, each game lasting three hours, a constant buzz of activity. Football happens once a week, it’s an event.”
Genius!
October 3rd, 2008 on 12:43 pm
Or,
“Baseball is a lyrical sport inspiring even the most reticent to commit their observation to the written word, turning fandom into poetry, cheers into stanza, defeat into elegy, victory into ode.”
“Football caters to the inarticulate and illiterate, whose only intellectual skill happens to be calculating the point spreads to determine this week’s betting card.”
But I’m biased. Go with the brilliant wife though– good move.