Sounds like a great excuse to me!

GingerTPLC: I always say I should try Plurk more, but I seem so tied or automatic using Twitter, it's a hard habit to change.

I find that if you make it a "thing" to plurk 2x a day for a week, you're hooked. But it's messier. You actually get to know people here.

It's more personal; people still lament about how to get tech-reluctant teachers to connect? It's this sort of environ that really works.

Why? What is different?

It's less "in your face" tech-y at first. More human with conversation. Imagine talking this way on Twitter? We'd lose dozens of followers.

but they can get real help with all sorts of things here. And don't feel silly asking newbie questions because they get many and detailed

answers.

I just read a thread where a plurker helped a semi-newbie learn how to take a screenshot on a PC today. That'd be ignored on Twitter.

GingerTPLC: Interesting. I'll try hard to spend more time here.

and you have to learn to endure the emoticons. Another thing that makes Plurk sticky for folks.

OK!!!