This Is Why I Don't Twitter
I can’t pinpoint the reason for it, but communication is often painfully time consuming. I have spent so much time listening to voicemail messages, talking on the phone and reading or writing emails over the past few days. It is hard for me to imagine being any more in-touch than I am now: When would I have time to DO anything?
I set up an account on Twitter a few months back, so I could leave ‘tweets’ online about what I was doing at any given moment. It’d be nice if I were say… locked up in an Egyptian prison. But without a web-enabled phone, I’d be stuck typing on my laptop at all times. That’d be all the tweets, with the self-referentiality of:
"Still at home. Still writing tweets."
"Wi-Fi went down, walked to kitchen, cycled power to the router, drank a swig of Pepsi."
How are these people still productive? They are not like me.
Posted by Evan Bittner Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:30:00 GMT
