I finally bit the bullet and joined Twitter

I am blogging about the experience (and other stuff) over at ShelleySaid.com … but I just really GOT the whole social media thing and the power of the people. I know it's crazy… most of you probably already get it… but I never did. I blog lots, and get some traffic, but I work hard for that traffic. You are here reading this because of hours and hours and hours of work, surfing the internet, commenting on blogs, adding value when I can, joining communities like IOWA Ave and blog catalog (see my sidebar).

It's all well and good, I've enjoyed the work, so yeah it's been a lot of fun and I have met some COOLEST people! I love jornalling about health issues, and sharing stories and recipes. So today while I was pondering Twitter, I thought,… here we have, more than any other time in the history of HISTORY, an opportunity to really INFLUENCE people from our own little corner of the world. We have the opportunity, through social media, to express our views, and make them understood in places we have only read about before.

twitter is so .. well… random. But isn't it all? The randomness of it is what makes it so exciting, and so much like fate, destiny. If you believe everything happens for a reason, that everyone comes into each others lives for a reason then how do you account for the fact that now you can literally find hundreds, maybe thousands of people a day coming across what you've written through Twitter, Stumble, or Digg.

Is there a way to take that fact (the act that Twitter has 3.5 million members and growing exponentially by the day) and somehow leverage your message so that it gets heard, and shared. Can we help get people the knowledge they need to finally decide to stop eating Big Mac's and start eating food? Can we get them the info they need to rid their bodies of heavy metals and toxins (see that zeolite bottle in the sidebar). Can we get them the iformation they need to help us STOP Codex Alimentarius in it's tracks, to make governments more accountable, and to stop poisoning our food supply, and our water and the air we breathe?

Think about what a difference you could make in this world if you had an audience of people that would really listen?

Feel free to follow me on Twitter. I know that I have to make a difference somehow. I know I have to create, and inspire and share, and help everyone Be Naturally Well.

See you there!

@ShelleyPenney :-)