I’ve been told by my Aunt that I talk too much about other people in this blog and that I shouldn’t do that. Well then…what else is there to talk about?!
So, in an effort to NOT talk about people in this blog post, I’m going to talk about people’s statuses.
I’m a big Twitter user. No, it’s not because I like the feeling of people always knowing my bidness, but because I like knowing theirs. I like knowing what my peeps are up to, it reminds me that my own crazy life is right in line with what would be considered “normal”. I think of Twitter as the ultimate status update. But then there is Facebook status updates, Instant Messaging, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, MySpace, and the three P’s…Plaxo, Plurk and Pownce. (Just to name a few.) I Googled the term “status update manager” and holy cow batman there were 10 pages of crap just for updating your status feeds!
I didn’t know that status was that important. But as this online world grows tighter, I guess it is. I don’t use it, but there is the service of HelloTxt. It seems to be pushed in the REALTOR world a lot. What do you use (if anything)? And, does it actually save you time or is it just another obsessive web 2.0 addiction?
I should look at it like this, if I keep my status updated it saves me several phone calls to my Mom. Time saver! Now if I could just get my husband to obsessively update his status.
Twitter user here. Status is important, I found that my Twitter usage went up ten fold when someone I knew IRL started using it regularly.
Now I just need to get a few more people to use it to spread the addiction.
Comment by Aaron — September 25, 2008 @ 6:29 am