>Twitter Fritter

By: Eris Weaver | Date: October 8, 2007 | Categories: Uncategorized

>As part of the 23 Things challenge, I frittered away some time on Twitter. Folks randomly post a short blurb about what they’re doing at the moment. I just don’t get the point.

There’s a feature where you can have twitters sent to your cell phone. There are some news feeds so you could set up something resembling SDI, and get little blips on your cell phone, either from your friends or from the news feeds.

[rant on]
This just feeds into this whole antisocial trend of being so constantly connected via various electronic gadgets (cell phone, iPod, blackberry, etc.) that you can hardly interact with the person who is right there in front of you for all the devices beeping at you.
[rant off]