There is something interesting in this ... I mean, not being interested in sharing your "mundane thoughts" ...
If I think about the people I follow on twitter, they are mostly the same people I read their blogs of or go to their talks at conferences. There are a few exceptions, but it seems that most of the people who tweet away all day long are also the people who blog daily or at least weekly. And just like that, I bet most of them(us) have many many more followers than those that we follow. I find it soooo interesting that I get follower notices almost daily. It is so rare that I recipricate. Further, I almost never read the public thread. It is all about the following and posting to friends and colleagues. Someone mentioned that they mostly use social networks for business. This might be a generational thing b/c we learned about social networks most likely at a time when most of our relationships are work related and for us in particular most of our work relations are THAT digitally connected that they would even bother to use such tools and services. For people who are younger they are all connected and the line between connectivity and work and personal is almost blurred into being indistinguishable. Remember that facebook and myspace were first tools for young people way before us grand-dadies/mommies invaded their turf. To that end, for me it is about blurring my professional more and more into my personal and as a tool for bringing my personal life into my professional. The later means that if I have Twitter open at work and I'm scanning personal friend's tweets I get a new area of contact with my personal that I wouldn't have had before, namely in my professional space. The opposite is also true as I tweet as much about my personal life as I do my professional life, so colleagues like yourselves learn all about my kid as much as about my class on IxD. To my comment about entertainment. I think the main point I was making there, is about "seriousness". One of the advantages of all this stuff is that it is about personal choice and personal expression. Yes, it can lead to better networking capabilities (LinkedIn and Facebook have been great for that), but they are all also about letting loose a bit. It is about letting loose the notion of privacy, creating more of a swiss-cheese effect in the walls that surround you. Sometimes you might regret a hole or two, but for the most part it is pretty cool. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23553 ________________________________________________________________ *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
