My boss and some of my co-workers are big fans/users of  the social networking site TWITTER.  I’ll be blogging more on my definition of, and take on, Twitter soon but my short definition of it is Facebook with a bad case of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder).  It’s a social networking site that let’s people answer the question “What are you doing?” – which they must answer in less than 140 characters…. about the length of one short sentence.

I have not even had the urge to follow it until recently, but that may be changing.

I’ve worked for flyte new media (a great little web site company in Portland Maine) for 8 years.  We started in a one room school house type office where we could see everyone….all three of us.  Now we’re up to 8 and are in a larger office with more hall distance in between.  I’m seeing my boss less and less these days as his role of chief rain maker, busy entrepreneur and experimenter in new technology takes him to the far end of the office (and sometimes the country) from our production office.

I recently started following him on Twitter so that I would know where the rainmaking was taking him next.  Then….it happened….I started clicking on the links of other tweeters in his entries….and found out that it could become addictive if not careful!   I don’t even know these people…why do I care what they’re doing?…must stop!

For a half second I even thought of joining and having my own tweets….but I suddenly got this image of myself on the information highway as the middle aged lady in slow lane with all the tweeters passing me by and tweeting their horns at how slow I was traveling….horrors!

If you want to get a taste of what this is about you can view my boss’ twitter here

http://twitter.com/therichbrooks

Gloria
a Maine Baby Boomer living/working in a generation X and generation Y world

PS:  Another twitter analogy I just thought of….Picture yourself skipping stones on a lake – each place the stone skips is another entry from someone…..Now picture that instead of you throwing the stone, it’s being shot out of one of those pitching machines that pitches baseballs at a hundred miles an hour…

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