Okay - I read the BW article - which I humbly think was complete fluff - there was no there, there (an unbearable lightness of non being).
I am really warming up to twitter, and have found that it is definitely creating more immediacy in my conversations in the third place with folks. I know that it does provide some context to have meaningful conversations with people, but my point, Dave - was that it can't replace having those real conversations. I think it can provide a means and platform for people to have intimate conversations - I was just hesitant to think that Twitter is those conversations... On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gang, > > BW has a nice article on Twitter that I thought relevant to people. > http://tinyurl.com/3ssj5l > > As to the "intimacy" discussion that Will brings up, I totally disagree. > My use of twitter and experience of it, totally leads to "closeness" in my > own personal feelings with many of the people I truly follow. BTW, just b/c > I follow you literally doesn't mean I really follow you closely. but those > whom I follow closely it is a source that helps me fill in the gaps, it is > what I call the arbitrary and mundane, and it is actually this "mundane" > that is what creates intimate relationships. > > Things that help this is that Twitter is not used in isolation. Tumblr, > Flickr (txitxer), friendfeed, etc. all add more to this, but it adds to > intimacy in the way the word is intended in its basic non-sexual meanings. > > -- dave > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
