On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Angel Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I think the fact that we tweet silly things like our meals or a good > hair day, while keeping serious events to ourselves is based on > existing social norms. For example, when something really difficult > happens like illness or death, people don't leave a messages, they > wait till they can get the person on the phone or face-to-face. Even > in person, you might not mention a sad situation to most people you > encounter because it's too heavy. What can they do about it anyway? > Why bring them down? > You know, my experience with this has been quite the opposite. Most of my SN interactions are on Twitter. I have a Facebook profile, but it's more for being found than connecting or really interacting with people. Twitter, for me, is for interacting with people. And on Twitter, there have been people who've gone through very serious things like illness, the deaths of relatives (and pets) or the birth of a child and tweeted about it. Usually, they get a flood of responses of support or congratulation. These are people I may have never met, or maybe have met once at a conference, but still when these things happen to them and they reach out, I reach back. I've found that this has helped form actual real friendships out of virtual ones, and I value that highly. Maybe it's the ephemeral nature of Twitter vs. the permanent nature of Facebook that makes this work, I don't know... all I know is that in my experience it has allowed me to make friends out of contacts and encouraged to me to interact with people as a whole person, not just as a fellow UX designer. Of course, this is my experience, and experiences can vary. Which is why we all have jobs. Hah! : ) F. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred Beecher Sr. User Experience Consultant (and full-blown human being) Evantage Consulting O: 612.230.3838 // M: 612.810.6745 IM: [email protected] (google/msn) // fredevc (aim/yahoo) T: http://twitter.com/fred_beecher ________________________________________________________________ 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
