You know Twitter, right? It’s the current In Thing for the Web 2.0 crowd. The principle is that you periodically type whatever unimportant thing you’re doing into their web page or one of the numerous mini-apps designed to integrate with the service, and then all your friends can see. Sounds great until you realise that if what you’re doing is so trivial and your momentary thought so transient that it doesn’t warrant even an IM message, let alone an email or blog post .. maybe it doesn’t need to be heard by anyone else?
There are thousands of tiny things each of us do every single day. They’re important to us, or we wouldn’t do them. But there is absolutely no need to keep anyone else informed of your progression through the daily routine of trivial personal actions. It shouldn’t hurt your self esteem to acknowledge that no-one really needs to know when and how you went to the toilet, and what the result was, or what fascinating thing your cat just did, or what you’re looking at out the window. Seriously .. just keep it to yourself. I sure as hell don’t want to know. I can’t even imagine wanting to know.
And as for subscribing to other’s twitter “streams” .. well, not to be a killjoy, but if you’re so bored and in so much need of constant useless distraction, why don’t you just stop pretending to work and go watch a movie or something?