"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."
~ 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.
am so sick of answering...questions “what’s a Twitter?” and then “dear God,