Twitter is junk food, blogging is like making a stir fry

Chatting with the inestimably cool Roland Tanglao the other day about all things social media, mobile tech and Nokia, and he made an analogy that just stuck.

He said Twitter, and Tweeting specifically, is just like junk food, street meat, a dirty hot dog, a guilty pleasure. A quick fix, scratching the itch, making you feel good. For a bit. But, a few minutes (maybe more) later, the itch returns, and you have to go back for more. Are we all addicts? Hooked on RTs, #FFs, @s and replies to questions you wouldn't think of asking in real life?

Blooging, however, requires a commitment, time, preparation, thinking, cerebral exercise (if only to come up with words like cerebral). Roland said it was like making a stir fry. Complicated - chopping vegetables, timing the cooking so they are all done to perfection, deciding at what point to add the meat, adding just the right amount of soy sauce to keep things interesting.

And while I like to Tweet as much as the next man (unless that man is @stephenfry), I actually prefer the more considered approach, time to savour the flavour, not try to cram all the lovely goodness into 140 characters, throw in some extra taste with a picture or two.

So. Are you a junk food addict, or do you prefer to class yourself as a chef? Or is there a balance to be struck between the two?