You really cannot judge the effectiveness of Twitter until:
1) You sign up for it.
2) You have a group of 20+ friends (people who you actually
give a shit
about) also signed up for it, all of them added to your
friends list.
Unless you have these two things, you really have no idea
what Twitter
is good for. You probably also should get Twitterific or
Twitteroo, too.
Honestly I do resent products that require you to fully
adopt them into
your lifestyle to even have the foggiest idea what it is
for. But when
it first emerged, IM was one of those products, and now
Twitter is too.
But there are some things that genuinely fall into this
category.
You can't truly know it until you see it running for real,
and the only
way to see it for real is to do #1 and #2 above. Signing up
by yourself
isn't good enough, and watching the public timeline to judge
Twitter
doesn't give you that personal sense that your actual
friends do.
It may emerge that Twitter's core concept -- what Leisa
Reichelt calls
"Ambient Intimacy" (http://
www.disambiguity.com/ambient-intimacy/) -- is
something that can be built into other apps (like a social
network, IM,
or a PIM) more readily someday, but for now it's a
fascinating and 100%
brand-new new emerging paradigm of technologically-mediated
social
interaction. It may not have the same impact as email or the
telephone,
but it's about as different from what came before as those
technologies
were from their predecessors. And, as with those
technologies, the
protocols and etiquette for Twittering still hasn't emerged
yet.
You have a choice: you can fully and earnestly adopt it now,
or you can
wait until it either dies away, is appropriated into other
systems, or
is ubiquitous and you're the last one to the party. Like
Yoda says,
"There is no Try".
-Cf
Christopher Fahey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces asis.org
> [mailto:sigia-l-bouncesasis.org] On Behalf Of
Jamie Foggon
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:43 PM
> To: sigia-lasis.org
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Twitting yet?
>
> This is just my personal opinion, but I think Twitter
is a
> case of pushing what can be done to the limit. It's not
> necessarily useful, or has any longevity.
>
> The way the internet has evolved over the last few
years
> reminds me weirdly of a hyper-accelerated version of
the
> evolution of art from traditional to impressionist, to
> modernism... eventually getting to Malevich's 'White on
> white'. People always want to push to the limits of
what can
> be done, and the web is going through this intense
social
> networking phase - where Twitter must be pretty much
the
> logical extreme.
>
> The level of detail cannot get more granular than
telling all
> your friends you've just eaten a sandwich or farted.
What
> added value does this provide to anyone else? Wouldn't
it be
> better to spend the time doing more worthwhile things,
than
> spending valuable seconds of your life telling people
about
> the mundane?
>
> I hope that the social networking revolution will
eventually
> mature into helping connect worthwhile thoughts and
actions
> and make those connections more pertinent and life
enhancing.
> Information overload will get even more of an issue as
we get
> towards Minority Report as a reality - who needs EVEN
MORE
> distractions from actually trying to achieve something
with the day!!
>
> Am I missing something fundamental with this? I think
its a
> banal waste of time. Do stuff, don't talk about it, and
at
> least dont talk about stuff that is not interesting!
>
> --
> Jamie Foggon
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