Week Seven: Microblogging

I chose Twitter because it seems to be the most ubiquitous. Frankly, I simply don't get this need to be constantly in contact with people. Where do people find the time to be on Facebook, Twitter, etc. all day and all night? I have a relative that is on Facebook every single time I sign on. For the most part I couldn't give a hoot what most of the people I know that are on Twitter blather on about. Perhaps, I am inherently antisocial by nature but what happened to sitting at home reading a good book. I will concede that Twitter might be useful for keeping up to date on schedule changes at conferences and I am somewhat intrigued by the use of Twitter during the Iranian mess alluded to at the beginning of this lesson. Never the less, it seems to me that most of the tweets I've looked did not serve any good purpose beyond idle chat. In order to be fair though, I started following 23thingsks, hbraum, the List of Kansas Librarians on Twitter, and the List of Kansas Libraries on Twitter and will keep an open mind as I monitor the these tweeters.