I’ve been a big fan of that internet thing since the beginning. The early days were full of explaining over and over again about these things called web sites and web pages and how you got there and why. A lot of ways to connect on the internet have come and gone and that’s ok in its own way since all things change and we change.
I know a few people who were earlier to twitter. I remember making the account because people at work were talking about this new thing and finding out that the guy who brought blogger about was behind this new shorter communication. That’s cool.
Twitter gets some press these days for being the social media of choice when you’re trying to get things done. I often say that twitter is a different part of the internet for me – I follow people there that aren’t my day to day circle or even a “likely to meet someday” circle (although I do follow quite a number of people I know in person) which leads me down different strands of the internet than I might see otherwise.
I like the immediacy of it. I like the brevity of it. I like the feeling that it’s a river that I can stick my feet into and when I’m not there it flows along without me. I can peek downstream to see what happened if I need to but mostly I don’t. It’s very in the moment. It’s conversational. (The only thing I find sad about it is the notion that if you could just master using it in just the right way you’d be a rich-and-famous-whatever-it-is-you’re-trying-to-be)
