On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Tahsin Shamma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it definitely is a personal choice. > > If I went to a party, I would rather have one night-long deep conversation > with 1 person than 50 short conversations with many people. Sure I spend a > lot of time on the web, but I also feel that the web has lessened > interaction between people on a personal level, to a degree that everyone > is > just a blurb of their real personality. Agreed - one long conversation in meatspace is definitely better - I still don't buy the notion of a bunch of folks going to a bar, and between sips, tweeting the conversation - but to each his own. > > > If I were to liken Twitter to anything, it would be like setting up your > own > personal forum/IM chat, a place where only you and your friends and anyone > you'd like to share your id with can constantly chat. Yeah - I think @daveIxD likened it to IRC - which seems the closest 'analog' pardon the mixed usage. > > > I agree, the medium is the message, and the medium itself is still too > impersonal for me to really communicate with someone. it can be inane and impersonal sometimes - but it can act as a gateway drug to great intimacy with folks, but it's still more group focused, and there is still no I in threesome. (thanks @*jayamorgan<http://twitter.com/jayamorgan> )* ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ 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
