November 2007

I’ve been getting a few requests demands by people to add them on twitter recently so I thought I’d explain a bit about how I use the site. I know some people use it like just another social network, connecting to as many people as they can a la Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace. That is not how I use it, I use Facebook and LinkedIn for that. With Twitter, I try and do a few things – keep up to date on the lives a few close friends, know where other friends in LA are in case I am near them and want to meet up, have conversations.

In order to do those three things with any efficiency, I can’t just follow anyone and everyone. I have to be very selective about the people that I follow, and even more selective about the people I get notifications from. In fact the list of people I get notifications from changes almost weekly based on where I am, where other people are, and who I’m talking with at that moment. I have a handful of friends who I actually don’t follow at all, but read their pages on their own all the time simply because they use Twitter so much that if I followed them it would drown out all the other people I follow. This isn’t anything personal against those folks, it’s just different usage habits require different processing.