I did some reading about twitter.com., a type of social networking site. The new instant messaging tool is apparently taking the computer information era by storm. Lots of folks are tweeting. It seems appealing to some because of its length- short, short. A co-worker showed me the site and was quite excited about it. This was before I had done my exploration. I am not as impressed, only, I think, because I am not sure I would use it to tell folks what I had for breakfast or how slow or busy I am at any given moment.
However, I do believe I can see uses for this in the library world and in business, and perhaps in someone's personal life. I see it as becoming an essential conference tool, to use during a meeting to tweet a co-worker your ideas in real time, exactly at the minute you think of it. Patrons who like up-to-the-minute infomation about the library, programming and products, could be very excited to receive information this way. This, I think, is the glitter.
I think we have only seen the beginning of this social scene. Could this be distracting? Will workers be able to get any real work done if they spend the day blogging, checking blogs, rss feeds, adding widgets, tweeting and twittering? With all of that activity online, will we lose the ability as humans to speak using our vocal cords?
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