Despite my insistence that I need more time away from my computer, I’ve become hopelessly addicted to Twitter. The fact that my husband now has an account on there as well, along with a couple of friends of mine frankly isn’t helping much. But, oh well. A quick microblogging update is easier than writing an email, sometimes.
Anyway, thanks to the twitterings of some folks I currently follow (lots of high-profile tech dudes in Silicon Valley - see, I’m not strictly about the pop culture, peeps), I made my way to a couple of aggregators that basically does the same thing the folks at Facebook were bitching about a year or so ago; keep track of everything you, or anyone you are interested in, uh, following, on any or all of your online doings from any site, or collection of sites, that shares your activities on it/them. On Facebook, this type of activity aggregator was/is called a mini-feed, and it was condemned by old time Facebook users as an invasion of privacy. Of course, elsewhere, it’s called “sharing”. And as a result, the vanity in yet providing even further content to a breathless and waiting world from all your little sites into one feed becomes all the more evident.
Not that I mind. I mean, I keep a blog, don’t I (actually about 5 of them, two of which I rarely update)? I also have a myspace, a facebook, and a bunch of other pages I’m finding hard to keep track of. I had one old online friend breathlessly tell me that I’m “everywhere”, when he found me on Facebook. Seems like that with a lot of folks, these days. Forget early adoption. This is all about keeping up. But given my attention whore tendencies, one would have expected nothing less. Plus I have stuff to promote. Why not?
Stumble It!
