Social Location: Finding my Tweeps

My funny-little brain is fixated on social location.

If you follow me on Twitter at all, you’ll know that I spend at least 1 day every two weeks trying to figure out where all my tweeps are.

“Wait, I thought @soandso was in Texas? Why is she tweeting from Cali?”
“So @himandher and @herandhim are in Rhode Island, right? and they go to church with @meandhim…right?”
“Dagnabit, I thought @starstruck was in Kansas… Oh, she’s not in Kansas anymore?”

I get confused easily.

When my desire to socially locate everyone began, I have no clue, but it persists.

The whole social-location cellular atom in my brain remains on homeostasis as long as everyone stays in the same place.

Atom is quiet. Happy. Content. Atom is in a resting state.

All is well in Atom’s world.

But the minute someone decides to travel, all those little atoms in my brain start bumping into each other and something akin to nuclear fission takes place.

It gets loud up in my brain.

I have no idea why being able to place someone on this virtual map in my brain is so important.

But it is.

And the effect that being able to place a stickpin on a map where my friends live, that is important too.

It’s like, if I know where people are socially located on a map, I know they are real, I know they exist, and I know there is an actual friendship occurring.

Because sometimes in twitter-land, things can become so virtual you wonder if there is substance behind it.

So being able to place my tweeps on a map, it makes things more real for my pea-brain.

Last week my mom took social location to a whole new level.

She called to ask me where my husband was (he was at a conference) and I had no clue.. the conversation went like this…

“Where’s John’s conference at?” mom asked.
“Mmm somewhere in North Dakota or South Dakota I think,” I said.
“You don’t know?” mom inquired.
“No,” said I.
“Well, when is he coming back?” said mom.
“Sometime this week… maybe Wednesday I think,” I answered.
“You don’t know where your husband is dear? Don’t you find that a little odd?” asked mom.

Well I didn’t until she asked! Jeez mom!

So now I am left with the question, why is social location such a ginormous thing to me sometimes, but not others?

Am I the only one who likes to “place” my friends on a map somewhere?

Is that weird?