My Twitter days are over.
I tried, I really did. I tried it for ten whole days. I posted what I was doing, you know, like, “I’m sitting at my desk at work, doing work.” Or, things like, “I am hungry. I am getting food.” I also signed up for text messages, so that I could get updates such as these from my friends, so that I knew when they were listening to music, driving in cars, or even changing their baby’s diaper (yes, that happened). Was this really how I wanted to spend my 500 text messages a month?
Not really. So, when I turned off my “text alerts” option in Twitter, I knew my days on the site were numbered.
It makes you wonder: with all of these social networking tools, when will we finally realize that we leave very boring, uninteresting lives? Thanks Twitter, for helping me to comprehend that mine is extremely mundane, and that it’s probably best to spare people from hearing about when I need to go to the bathroom.
UPDATE: Looks like I’m not the only one.
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Brad - give up on Twitter personally for the time being but keep watching. (I’m also uninteresting) It will be much more interesting to you/I if/when it reaches critical mass on the East Coast (right now it is a West Coast thing). Also, I’m in my early 30s and was a little slow to get MySpace/Facebook because it isn’t relevant to me personally. Just not my deal really. But that doesnt’ mean it is not important. I’m sure you know all that, but keep watching.
On another note, I think in many ways the applications for candidates are more interesting than for individuals at this points (it is a sort of megaphone if you can attract followers, which is why all the A-list bloggers love it I think.)
Todd Zeigler said this on March 29th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Hi Todd,
I’m definitely keeping Twitter under my radar, as I am with Joost and many other “not quite there yet” technologies. I also think that Twitter is playing to the “non-Facebook” crowd, and I wonder if the overall age demographic for Twitter is in the 25 to 40 years range (I’d bet). In other words, I wonder if the Twitter explosion is the “old people’s” version of the Facebook explosion a few years ago — which would explain why some of us younger folks “don’t get it.” We’ve had the “Facebook status” for quite some time.
Brad Levinson said this on March 29th, 2007 at 3:52 pm