For a tech-geek, I have to admit… I don’t have a MySpace account and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. I don’t understand the need to make “friends” with total strangers (I guess I was taught too well to “never speak to strangers!”).
As if I wasn’t far enough behind the “hip” crowd, along comes Twitter. The growth of Twitter is astounding, everyone’s talking about it, and everyone mother is throwing out invitations to join. If I were to summarize Twitter, it’s basically a public Instant Messenging service. The object (so it seems to me) is to put short sentences regularly and often about what you’re doing at any point of the day. I think it’s something to do with letting people know what you’re up to, although I haven’t quite figured out what other people are supposed to do with that information. Start a private conversation because you both frequent the same pizza joint? Try to meet you at some location? Stalk you? I just don’t get it
Anyway, this is an interesting picture that describes how Twitter fits into the grand scheme of technological-connectedness (yes I just made that term up).
While my view is in a miniscule minority, I am not alone. Other like-minded people (who explain Twitter much better) are: passionate and blyberg.
JoseArmando