My 2 Day Internet Cleanse + The Twitter “Startup Princess Appreciation Weekend”

By startupprincess | Published February 17, 2009

So you could say that I’ve really “embraced” Twitter…I was a very sporadic Twitter user until November.  I believe I had only updated a dozen times or so and then I saw and learned how to use Twitter to actually communicate with people not just as a little solo act. Fairy Godmothers Gwen Bell, Gabrielle Blair, and Barbara Jones all taught us how to use Twitter at our November Startup Princess retreat and I was instantly hooked–to excess I’m afraid.

Last weekend I decided I’d go on a break and show my true love for my husband was stronger than my love to Twitter LOL, so I did a “Internet Cleanse” as a gift. It was surprising how difficult it really was, embarrasingly enough. You have to understand that Twitter’s become a mentor circle, a social outlet, a marketing op, and so much more for me…so to pull back even for just 2 1/2 days was hard. But all good things need to be done in moderation, so I’m trying to moderate my use of the internet, email, and twitter…anyhow, I made this video while I was “cleansing” to show how hard it was and also prove that I was being faithful to my commitment not to tweet! ;) Enjoy laughing at my pathetic misery.

The funniest thing of it all was that while I was “cleansing” for the weekend, some of my Twitter friends decided to shower me with love and kindness and created a blog called “We Miss Startup Princess” with the “Startup Princess Appreciation Weekend”, take a look! So to my complete surprise when I returned on Monday I was greeted with dozens of sweet tweets with the hashtag #SPAW for “Startup Princess Appreciation Weekend”, they said they wanted to make sure I knew I was appreciated so I’d never pull a stunt like abandoning them again for an extended time, so funny! so cute.  Thanks to all the Startup Princesses on Twitter who participated in that little surprise…I was honored they would make such an effort…thx to JazzCat and RyanSMiller who generated the idea and told everyone about the little joke. Thanks to all! YOU ARE LOVED> xo

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