I don't think it has a lot to do with age, although I think that there's probably a general trend as you look at the population as a whole that the older you get the less likely you are to want to have the latest technology. Some of that has to do with prioritizing and impluse control I guess. But I also think there are just different personalities that are more apt to want to be on the "cutting edge" whereas others avoid that like the plague, and still others are in the middle. It's a spectrum. I have peers (I'm 41) who still are not very comfortable with computers, not on facebook, basically send email and that's about it. My father-in-law is 72 and while he isn't on facebook, he's constantly online doing research, streaming radio, video, posting pictures from his digital camera, etc.
As far as Twitter is concerned, I think it's something of an acquired taste and unfortunately it's not all that easy to get your mind around. The immediate assumption everyone has about it is not really accurate. Most people see the status messages as being the height of banality, and it's true that some Twitter users don't really get the idea of how to use it and do post trivial monotonous nothings. But it's really a tool and is what you make of it. Most people compare it to Facebook, but to me Facebook is where people can be really banal. I view Facebook as a place to keep up with friends and coworkers and family, but Twitter as a kind of global chatroom that I can filter by the type of usage or interests I have. For example, I follow numerous people who are also higher-end Palm Pre users and developers, including Craig here, Palm itself, as well as a bunch of Palm employees I have come to know through Twitter. By doing this you can get a wealth of information streaming at you very quickly, and I can also pose questions and often get answers within minutes if not less. Really it's all about information. I don't follow many friends or family on Twitter firstly because few of them use it, and secondly because of those that I have, their subjects weren't interesting to me. But whereas on Facebook if you don't become friends with someone they can see that as an insult, on Twitter it's really not very apparent whether someone is following you unless you try to send them a direct message. Anyway, that's my piece about Twitter, I think it has enormous value, but that value is rarely seen by people initially. I decided to stick with it and invest time into it and read as many articles as I could until I finally understood it's purpose (or I should say potential purposes). Levi Wallach blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Jim O'Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, Happy Birthday Harold! Welcome to double nickels...Life IS a highway! > > > Jim O'Sullivan > > > --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Harold M. Goldner <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Harold M. Goldner <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Treo] buyer as beta tester` > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 6:33 PM > > 55, today, in fact; and it's more about experience (and the recognition > which is my mantra: these things are TOOLS not TOYS.) > > Harold > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
