Comments on: Am I Addicted To Twitter? http://www.marusin.com/2006/12/15/am-i-addicted-to-twitter/ what happens when a technologist, music-lover and blogger are all trapped in the same body Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:03:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Juni http://www.marusin.com/2006/12/15/am-i-addicted-to-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-3775 Juni Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:42:37 +0000 http://www.marusin.com/2006/12/15/am-i-addicted-to-twitter/#comment-3775 friggen addicted to twitter. AHHHHHHHHHHH friggen addicted to twitter. AHHHHHHHHHHH

]]> By: ocomik http://www.marusin.com/2006/12/15/am-i-addicted-to-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-3735 ocomik Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:04:00 +0000 http://www.marusin.com/2006/12/15/am-i-addicted-to-twitter/#comment-3735 Going through my daily RSS feeds when I came across <a href="http://www.marusin.com/2006/12/15/am-i-addicted-to-twitter/" rel="nofollow">Marusin's post</a> about <a href="http://www.twitter.com" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>. What's Twitter? The folks from Twitter describe it as "A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?" The responses are of a quick and concise construction designed to convey ... Come to think of it, I don't know what it's designed to convey. The word "nothing" comes to mind. It's social networking run amok. Do I really give a shit that Damien Tanner just jumped "on the picadilly to the office" or that one of my web cohorts is eating dinner and watching a TV program. Not exactly! I understand web logs. I understand social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook. I understand building data stores based on social interests in order to bring people of similar interests together. <b>I don't understand the social networking relevance of "Went to 7/11 and bought a slurppee."</b> Where's the disconnect? Going through my daily RSS feeds when I came across Marusin’s post about Twitter.

What’s Twitter? The folks from Twitter describe it as “A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?”

The responses are of a quick and concise construction designed to convey … Come to think of it, I don’t know what it’s designed to convey. The word “nothing” comes to mind.

It’s social networking run amok. Do I really give a shit that Damien Tanner just jumped “on the picadilly to the office” or that one of my web cohorts is eating dinner and watching a TV program. Not exactly!

I understand web logs. I understand social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook. I understand building data stores based on social interests in order to bring people of similar interests together.

I don’t understand the social networking relevance of “Went to 7/11 and bought a slurppee.”

Where’s the disconnect?

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