Have you heard about Twitter, the micro-blogging website that exploded on the online landscape in 2006? Well I’m not “getting” it, and I’ve tried. I’ve even paid my web designer to put the Twitter logo on my homepage to invite you all to “follow me.” Follow me if you dare: I don’t know where I’m going.
There are many who are just as confused as I am about the trend. They are abandoning the Twitter ship in droves. This does not comfort me. Twitter is not going away, and Twitter is not the issue anyway. It’s just a sign post pointing to the issue.
A connectivity that has never occurred before on our planet is being born. How this communication landscape will affect our world, how we work and how we relate has just barely begun to emerge. I can feel the change happening and on a deep level, I am resisting it. The resistance I must sheepishly admit is not because it’s a bad thing but simply because it’s a new thing.
Are you feeling the emergence of a new paradigm? Is it freaking you out? Let’s talk about this.
For now, I will post these thoughts on Twitter, and hope that someday, I will understand why.
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