Technology As List-Making, Time-Wasting, Updating Mechanism

I joined Twitter today.

So, many a person has been given the ability to socialize via the communication tools over the worldwide web. So, how effective are these tools as they relate to productivity or education or communication? I’m not sure. After all, a brand new twitter’er myself, I am curious as to the plight of my online experience when I follow Barack Obama’s updates on policy (presumably not written by him and I expect nothing less), Ashton Kutcher’s silly anecdotal comments about celebrity gossip and paparazzi, and hoping to soon find novelists, screenwriters, and directors. The latter I can hopefully access some of their thought processes. Wouldn’t this be somewhat productive as far as learning perspective in the world? A world I’d like to think I share quite well with other writers? So, Twitter has promoted a lot of “Tech gossip”, which is probably prompted by Twitter itself, as people write tweets, or rather small one-liners 160 characters or less, about their lives. Mundane, exciting, whatever their lives consist of, we get to hear about it. So, why would a person tweet to begin with? Again, I’m not sure. After all, Facebook allows everyone to update their profile status with supposedly interesting tidbits. Twitter has a smiliar concept, not that I’m aware which one started the commotion. I’m fascinated by all these social networking tools, and their affects on business, technology, and life. Naturally, I’m going to begin by following other twitter’ers to get the gist of these one-line tweets, but what’s to stop me from being satiric in each tweet given? Nothing, right? But, then again, perhaps that’s the fun of it? But if it is just fun, certainly I can find other things to occupy my time with. I’d rather consider myself one of words, of charm and prolific statements. However, if there is some way to brush ideas and wit against the cyberspace community and learn from it, maybe it is worth it. I’m giving it a test run. I’ve seen what Shakespeare might say from another satiric list-maker (I fear Twitter is in some ways a list-displayer, which would make me a list-maker) and found it funny. If I could write something to this effect, I would find it amusing. And perhaps allow me material for the real thing. http://www.abdpbt.com/2008/12/08/10-tweets-you-might-see-if-shakespeare-used-twitter/
After all, most of you know, this blog will transform some of its content as seedlings for my stream-of-consciousness novel. I look at life as material for this. Perhaps Twitter is just that.