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[Jay Taylor]

So as these social networking methods, cell phones and Bluetooth devices continue to evolve are we heading for something resembling the Borg?

 

[Citizen87645]

Kevin, here is the source (good ol' despair.com):

The Despair Inc. Blog

 

[Diallo B]

hilarious!

 

[MarkHastings]

Where's the graph that shows ignorance to modern trends makes you old and crotchety?

What's this tele-vision now? Them moving pictures are the work of the devil I tells ya!!

 

[Citizen87645]

Maybe it's not as well used as it seems: Most Twitter users never tweet, don't follow anyone - Ars Technica

 

[Diallo B]

funny.

 

[Stephen Orr]

Actually, you can avoid a lot of that by keeping control of who you are following and who's following you.

I only follow about 70 people - 55 or so are colleagues and peers, another 5 are close friends, and the rest are various tech people or news tweets.

A good example of how we use Twitter - today, the entire school district's internet access went down. I was one of the first to contact our district help desk and found out it was a wide-spread problem. I "tweeted" this information via my Blackberry, and many of my fellow computer teachers did not have to spend time on hold with the help desk because they found out it was a district, not a school, issue.

A lot of us use our phones to tweet - I do because my job takes me out of my lab and around the building.

EDIT: I take it back, I do have one friend who frequently tweets when she is going to the hair salon or day spa. So I guess I do get a little of it, but not as much as others.

BTW, I just finished my third Diet Coke of the day and I am still tired!

 

[MarkHastings]

The thing that always kills me is, the ones who are always saying "If you want to know what I'm doing, then just call me!"

But isn't calling someone and talking about mindless shit (like almost EVERYONE has done at some point in their life) the exact same thing??

We all talk mindless crap to one another...Twitter just puts it all online. That's really the only difference.

 

[Kevin Hewell]

But it's much more personal mindless crap when you actually call someone.

 

[Lucia Duran]

I do understand where those of you are coming from about being able to get information out there fast when needed.

I'd still rather get a phone call or an email if someone wants to know what I have been up to in my life and what not. I personally don't get some of the random ramblings of celebs or civilians and why people find it fascinating to "follow" them.

A girl at work just told me that she follows over 100 people on twitter. She said most of them are just people that she happened upon or was told about through her group of friends. She also follows a lot of random bloggers. I think that many people follow bloggers or tweets because they are either bored in their own lives and feel like they are living vicariously through others or they just have nothing better to do.

I use to follow a blog by a family that started their own urban homestead (pathtofreedom.com), but I haven't read it in a few years.

 

[MarkHastings]

^^ Entertainment can come from anywhereKinda sums up sports fans, right?

 

[BrianW]

I'm with you, Lucia. I get email on my phone, and it's not limited to 160 words per email. It's perfectly adequate for keeping up with friends, with family, and even with subscribed threads on the HTF.