On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:51 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Some studies have apparently found that most cell phone usage is simply related to something that birds do all the time. Birds send out messages to each other in the form of songs, chirps or tweets.
It's called "social interaction." Some people have trouble with that, but it is very useful when coordinating activities with a group of people. It will let you know if people's plans have changed or if they are on schedule. Knowing this allows one to schedule one own's time much more effectively.
I recently suggested to a doctor that his office start to use Twitter. That way when he had an emergency and was suddenly running very behind schedule his patients would be aware and could adjust accordingly. Ideally a few patients who were most able to reschedule would call in to do that. This would quickly get him back on schedule with little extra work for his staff and a major benefit for the rest of his patients.
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