I'm glad you mentioned Facebook. I'm a fairly recent convert to FB and have found it fascinating. I'd say more about that except it's the morning after the company holiday party and my brain hasn't quite kicked in yet. In relation to this thread though, I must confess I didn't really understand the whole twitter thing. But I do now - and it's (to me anyway) because of the FB status statements. You get an idea what people are up to, thinking about right then. As long as they update the status often. And some friends have their twitter in their status. So, now I understand twitter to be the FB status on steroids.
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:55:31 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> Subject: [IxDA Discuss] On the topic of twitter - Why?> > A few > interesting thoughts here.> First off: (http://twitter.com/daveixd)> > What > is interesting is that almost everyone has looked at this question from> the > Poster's point of view and not the reader's. Very interesting. I LOVE> > reading my twitter follower's feed. Sometimes its a bit much when David> > Armano is at a conference, or Thomas Vander Wal is traveling around the> > world (I mean how many times can one man be stuck on a tarmack?).> > But it > is a great way for me to not be connected (that's like 'ease of> use'), but > rather to get new insights into the lives of.> > Examples. I have met with, > corresponded with, even planned a conference with> Dan Saffer, but I only > found out through twitter that he plays cello.> > There are a million such > situations like this.> > Now going back to the other side of it (and I'm > concentrating on twitter).> > First off, I don't think of it as micro-blogging. It is not a log in any> sense of the term for me, the way a blog is, or maybe it is more like a log> than a blog is. But it is so much about the way I monitor it. The fact that> it can come into so many different platforms and they are all push (by> choice/selection). And I can push back through all of those same platforms> as well.> > Next thing, it is sometimes an easier (and also cheaper) way to SMS someone,> especially someone around the world. I love doing back and forth direct> message conversations with Daniel Szuc in Hong Kong (or wherever he is this> week -- I think Taipei). The fact that I even know he is in Taipei would> have never happened before twitter.> > A great resource to look up about all this are some of the talks on Leisa's> blog www.disambiguity.com. Just look for "ambient intimacy".> > On a separate note, this is also why I use facebook. It's stream/feed is> also a great way to relate to pe ople in a different way.> > -- dave> > -- > David Malouf> http://synapticburn.com/> http://ixda.org/> http://motorola.com/> ________________________________________________________________> *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah*> February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA> Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/> > ________________________________________________________________> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!> To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help _________________________________________________________________ The best games are on Xbox 360. Click here for a special offer on an Xbox 360 Console. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/wheretobuy/ ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
