I have beef with Twitter. To me, it’s an oddly socially accepted and encouraged form of stalking where the "victims" volunteer themselves.
Aside from the creepy factor, from its inception I have never really understood how thousands of people #1 care so much about what other people are doing that they would subscribe to and check instant updates via a personal feed, and #2 that said number of people actually believe that that many OTHER people care enough about their minute happenings so much that they’d consistently update these feeds.
Twitter’s usefulness has long been debated and I have clearly... Read more
Tags: Business, E-Commerce and E-Business, facebook, linkedin, myspace, Rebecca Button, social networking, twitter
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Published January 24th, 2008
I’m all for instant access–to everything from entertainment news to directions from my TomTom. I mean, if I could have instant access to being showered and dressed every morning by pressing a few buttons, believe me, I WOULD. However, in this increasingly "instant" world we now live in, is there going to be a point when everything is so readily available that it just becomes too much?
Allow me to illustrate using a brand new business networking technique called "workstreaming." You’ve heard of blogging as a means of keeping customers, clients and visitors up to date on different goings on,... Read more
Tags: micro-blogging, networking, Rebecca Button, social networking, twitter, workstreaming
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