| i share your distaste for social networking. i hardly check my facebook, just once every couple of weeks. there are just too many people blasting you some game or stuff like that. boring. but w/twitter... it was different. after you get past certain barriers, it becomes a conversation. some people use the sms function to blast all their friends "wanna meet for lunch". hey, if you only need to send once, right and pay once? there are business leaders on twitter and some really smart people. think of twitter as a party that goes on 24/7. you get interesting conversation. sometimes, some people come in and shouts out that they're on ustream, and hey a couple of people slip out to go to that room. while everyone else keeps the conversation going. sometimes, you get the really breaking news. other times, you get good links to interesting stuff. there are times, you just listen in on a conversation between two twitters and you learn stuff. how do you keep up? you don't. you don't need to keep up. you can miss stuff and that's ok. i use growl on the mac to give me a heads up when someone twitters. that way, i don't have to actually be directly engaged. just think of it as background conversation in the office. And of course you can really turn it off. just my two cents. |