For those of you who follow The Freecycle Network‘s Twitter account (@Freecycle) you may have seen the #FreecycleFriday tag going out over the last few weeks.
So, what is it?
‘Freecycle Friday’ is a Twitter based community involvement project. Much in the same vein as ‘Follow Friday’, where you tell your followers which Twitter accounts you recommend, ‘Freecycle Friday’ is a ‘pull together’ of Twitter users all tweeting about the same thing.
Freecycle encourages users to use ‘Freecycle Friday’ to introduce someone to Freecycle (just tell them about your experiences and direct them to freecycle.org) and/or to offer something on your group.
It gets Freecycle known to people who perhaps haven’t come across it before and helps you clear out some stuff you don’t need or want any more. How cool is that, right?
So go ahead and tell @Freecycle what it is you’re doing for #FreecycleFriday. They retweet some of the messages, so you might just get your Twitter account a little bit of exposure while you’re at it.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to try Freecycle for yourself, check out freecycle.org. Freecycle is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.
Membership, as well as everything offered, is free. So, with nothing to lose, check it out today.
