Okay, I think I have my Twitter account set up. I found it very frustrating, I don't know why exactly. I really feel ambivalent about this form of social networking...as in, I can't quite imagine what this can really do for me. First of all, I don't have a cell phone with interenet capability, and it seems to me that you couldn't really do Twitter without that, if it is indeed a sort of minute by minute account of what one is doing. I chose about 6 things to follow initially, a few foodie folks, and New York Times books. So far, I'm not too interested in them. I've already deleted one. I had no luck at all just typing a person's name in, people I knew were twittering, and coming up with theirs. There were a couple of us trying to work on this together, and we just couldn't get anything to come up. So the ones I chose to follow all came from the recommendation lists.
Almost the second I got it set up, and had two followers, people I don't know and can't imagine how they found me...I find this kind of creepy.
I have used Twitter before to follow the proceedings of a meeting that I could not go to, and that worked okay. But I'm not sure I see how I would really use this in my day to day life. I don't see myself posting to it much, and what I have seen so far on the ones I chose to follow don't look all that interesting, so I don't know.
I think the jury is out on this one....
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