A good friend sent me a link to this New York Times article on social networking. While the focus is on Facebook and Twitter it’s broadly applicable across the myriad of similar sites and services. The piece refers to a social science concept called “ambient awareness”; it’s an interesting idea but I’m still going to un-follow people on Twitter if they continually tweet crap like “just made cheese sandwich” followed by “eating cheese sandwich”, etc.
NY Times article re: Twitter, Facebook, and why bad tweets are OK
A good friend sent me a link to this New York Times article on social networking. While the focus is on Facebook and Twitter it’s broadly applicable across the myriad of similar sites and services. The piece refers to a social science concept called “ambient awareness”; it’s an interesting idea but I’m still going to un-follow people on Twitter if they continually tweet crap like “just made cheese sandwich” followed by “eating cheese sandwich”, etc.