I totally get Twitter, even though I don't use it. Yet.
My step-family and close friends use Twitter, getting updates on their Blackberries. The community to which they've subscribed is small and pertinent to their lives, so it's not like receiving facebook updates. Really, do I care what this person I met at band camp in 1993 is doing this week? Probably not. However, with people who are close, receiving a twitter is a bit of unexpected emotional captial. It's like looking over to see the photograph you keep of the person on your desk during the day, only it's an actual message from the person. With a small group, Twitter can be used to create solidarity across a city, even in a public place. Twittering during Thanksgiving dinner provided my brothers a number of good laughs by being a humourous metaconversation. Its push nature makes it more rewarding than any sort of online forum. Then again, if you have any website, like LJ or OKcupid, automatically update you when someone sends you a message, you're already experiencing some of the joy of Twitter.
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Date: 2009-01-12 04:23 pm (UTC)My step-family and close friends use Twitter, getting updates on their Blackberries. The community to which they've subscribed is small and pertinent to their lives, so it's not like receiving facebook updates. Really, do I care what this person I met at band camp in 1993 is doing this week? Probably not. However, with people who are close, receiving a twitter is a bit of unexpected emotional captial. It's like looking over to see the photograph you keep of the person on your desk during the day, only it's an actual message from the person. With a small group, Twitter can be used to create solidarity across a city, even in a public place. Twittering during Thanksgiving dinner provided my brothers a number of good laughs by being a humourous metaconversation. Its push nature makes it more rewarding than any sort of online forum. Then again, if you have any website, like LJ or OKcupid, automatically update you when someone sends you a message, you're already experiencing some of the joy of Twitter.