Very simple and time-saver, I can type and post it right away in less than a minute, instead of thinking of 'as term of my journal' to write the very long essay in this main blog here. Likes to drop the link of joke or two, digging the networking, make a plan or two and hit the road.
I read the good article per mamamusings's article about Twitter criticisms:
The first criticizes the triviality of the content. But asking "who really cares about that kind of mindless trivia about your day" misses the whole point of presence. This isn't about conveying complex theory--it's about letting the people in your distributed network of family and friends have some sense of where you are and what you're doing. And we crave this, I think. When I travel, the first thing I ask the kids on the phone when I call home is "what are you doing?" Not because I really care that much about the show on TV, or the homework they're working on, but because I care about the rhythms and activities of their days. No, most people don't care that I'm sitting in the airport at DCA, or watching a TV show with my husband. But the people who miss being able to share in day-to-day activity with me--family and close friends--do care.The second type of criticism is that the last thing we need is more interruptions in our already discontinuous and partially attentive connected worlds. What's interesting to me about Twitter, though, is that it actually reduces my craving to surf the web, ping people via IM, and cruise Facebook. I can keep a Twitter IM window open in the background, and check it occasionally just to see what people are up to. There's no obligation to respond, which I typically feel when updates come from individuals via IM or email. Or I can just check my text messages or the web site when I feel like getting a big picture of what my friends are up to.
My main concern myself is about my personal privacy, since my Twitter account is open to public, I had to be careful for avoiding any of my sensitive information.
I find most fascinating myself reading the one line friends' who-I-know or even strangers across the social networking, that make me coming back easy to post. Very easy.
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