For the birds…?

Not understanding what all the fuss is about, but being both curious and bored, I decided to sign up for Twitter. Apparently I’m now officially a “Twitterer.”

Now, to figure out what to tweet about. (Never mind figuring out whether anyone cares or not — I have two followers already. Welcome, whoever you are. Good to see there’s someone out there more bored than I am, I guess!)

Philosophically, I don’t “get” all of this emphasis on social networks. My take on ubiquitous connectivity and IT automation is that one of the really cool benefits of all of this is the extent to which it *reduces* necessary interpersonal contact. For instance, online banking and e-commerce.

However, I may be a curmudgeon and “born old” according to several friends — but no technologist should dismiss technologies out of hand without a good reason. Twitter seems harmless enough, providing one is careful about the information tweeted — so why not give it a try?

Right now, though, I’m blogging about tweeting — and have connected Twitter to this blog via the RSS feed. There’s a whole lot of connectivity there — but it’s all self-referential. Is there a point? I guess I’ll see.

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One Response to For the birds…?

  1. Dosquatch says:

    Rockin' Robin – tweet – twadedaleet!

    More power to you, my friend. I refuse to twitter. Mind, I said the same of facebook but I finally gave in there, but this time I mean it.

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