Twitter: I don't get it.

[mckitterick]

Do you? If so, what am I not getting? Mostly, I find "tweets" irritating and lacking in anything I'd want to read. Despite the cute name.

Chris

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[jaylake.livejournal.com]

Whereas I practically live on IM. I live alone, I work alone, and it's an important social contact for me. Light conversation.

There's also a lot of interesting business and blog feeds on twitter, fwiw.

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

You see, I'd kind of assumed, given I also work alone and spend most of the day on my own as well, that this is how IM would work for me. Given it's not worked like that for me, it's been easier to disable it rather than address the inevitable conclusion ... I'm clearly crap at light conversation in a wide range of media.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

...yet you're an effervescent in-the-flesh conversationalist!

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I have been told several times in the last year that unless you have met me I can come across in print/pixels as being a bit ... 'stern'? Possibly this is also code for humorless as well, not sure, but I have several online friends who were apparently a bit surprised by the in-the-flesh version of brisingamen the first time we met.

(Ironically, I am actually quite shy in company so theoretically, print/pixels ought to work so much better.)

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

Whereas I am highly distractable and work in short bursts at anything I do, so IM works very well for me.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

See, I'm also highly distractable at work, which is why I avoid such things. I can end up spending hours doing 400 directions of research for a project that I could have finished in that time. Does it help or hinder your productivity?

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

Does it help or hinder your productivity?

Fairly neutral, in truth. I'd be bouncing around regardless, something a lifetime of experience has already amply demonstrated. May as well bounce in and out of stuff I enjoy.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I can see that. Me, I teach and host events at my house and have office hours and spend about as much time out with people as I do alone. So I really value the solitude of, say, a night at the telescope with no phone and my laptop's wireless deactivated.