If you, like me, have visited the Twitter home page and read the dozens of seemingly meaningless messages about the fragments of peoples lives, you’re probably thinking that it’s a load of rubbish. Why would anyone want to be so self-obsessed to write “gone to lunch with John. Will probably have sushi” and think that someone, anyone would care? Well, as it turns out there’s lots of good reasons, but it’s a bit like sky-diving or sex – you won’t understand it until you do it. As
Clive Thompson points out, Twitter is an experiential thing. Far from being something that’s self-obsession creating, it can become a way for people to have a much fuller and richer understanding of their world; and this comes about through a more granular view of the people around us. Give it a go (or try Jaiku)and see if what I’m saying has any truth.
