"The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this “ambient awareness”: by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don’t think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask."

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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME

I can do without the part where they have to question why anyone would want to use Twitter, that’s so 2007. I am going to use the shit out of ambient awareness.

8 June 2009 ·

About Me

Megan gets paid to create stuff on the internet. She is just as surprised about that as you are.

She lives other places online, too.