Great sequence of twitter statuses (all happened close together with only 2 additional statuses I removed to create a focus). If you are not used to twitter – the sequence is in reverse chronological order.
@whatleydude – I have not found a way to represent myself in a 160 character bio and I have stopped looking. I am thankful for a diverse and rich life. No I do not assume that folks browsing profiles have time or patience and yes I know very well that they actually don’t. But that is a choice that each and every “folk” makes (consciously or not). I choose otherwise (consciously).
@gapingvoid – again you are correct and astute, but attention is a wall not just for the Web 2.0 fantasy (which has and will run into many other walls).
@ajkeen – I think that to connect to what’s really going on we need to set aside the word economy and look for better pespectives – maybe ecology?
I remember reading quite some time ago about the narrowing effects of Powerpoint on business communications. I get the feeling that twitter is having a similar effect on personal communication?
Yoga philosophy explains that the mind has qualities – and that each quality can be functional or dysfunctional. This perspective supports me. Twitter (like anything else) can be functional/dysfunctional – that is not a quality of twitter but rather a quality of the people who use it.
Thank you all for this charming gathering.
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An excellent response, eloquently put.
Using Twitter daily as I do, both personally and professionally, I often find myself evangelizing good ‘twitt-etiquette’ and that includes filling out the bio section of their profiles. It would seem from your comment above that it was I that made an assumption, not yourself.
Apologies,
J 🙂