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• On 05.03.09 bar wrote:

  happy birthday, ethan! i have a nice story for you!

  sometime this afternoon, russell twatted a message about how he messed up his back and it hurt a lot. i hadn’t talked to russell in months, but i happened to see it about 15 minutes after he posted it and replied over facebook, offering some of my pain pills to hold him over. i ended up at benji’s a few hours later, and he called to meet me there to pick up the medicine. by the time the first one kicked in for him, we were all engaged a nice conversation and he was feeling much better. benji gave him the name of a respectable walk-in clinic for him to visit tomorrow, and then he went home to rest.

  and it was all because of twitter (except it was on facebook)! an unpleasant situation was resolved happily for everyone involved, and happened specifically via this twitter-like medium. i still think twitter itself is a fad that will die in the next year or so, like friendster and aol, but the idea seems much more deserving today.

• On 05.03.09 bar wrote:

  oh, and i’ll have to get back to you on your new boring video.

• On 05.04.09 Ethan wrote:

  Aye, I think your right about Twitter being hyped and on Oprah and such. But it’ll still be around simply because it rolled back the dial on everything before it, like friendster and aol. Both were way more “feature rich” than Twitter. This makes it difficult to out-twitter it. pownce (Started by Digg-founder Kevin Rose), jaiku, plurk.com have been heavily funded and failed.

  Irregardless, the honest reason I want you all on Twitter: I have several hundred facebook friends I am fond of that I only want to glance at once and a while. Get my best friends on little old Twitter (which is was (little) when I started this crusade), and we have our own private Idaho. Alas.

• On 05.04.09 Ethan wrote:

  Oh! And thanks for the birthday present.

  For real, it is heartening, I’ve gotten alot of static for defended how important these “blog” things will be ;)

  (Twitter is just a great example of humanity figuring out the Internet better.)

  (And also, how’d I get so old?)

• On 05.04.09 alex wrote:

  Happy Birthday. I’m not sure why you posted this video.

• On 05.04.09 Ethan wrote:

  Feeling good Alex! Feeeeellliiinn Gooooooood Video!

• On 05.04.09 bar wrote:

  i barely remember writing that; must have been after i took my ambien. i guess i should make some rules for myself.

  actually, i was more trying to say (badly, i guess) that the utility seems too specific for it to support itself as an entity. i think we’ll all remember twitter in the same way that we remember aol and friendster, but the format itself will probably live on as a taken-for-granted, seamless part of facebook (and such). you know, like aol sort of brought an accessible but limited version of pages (keywords), and friendster brought our current idea of social networking.

  that’s what i meant by fad. it doesn’t bother me so much that it’s overhyped (though most of the people overhyping it really bother me).

  but i thought you might be glad to know i saw its usefulness more clearly yesterday. i also like the idea of having a sort of smaller, more private facebook among close friends*, but facebook feels a lot more private to me than twitter (extensive privacy settings, stricter control over friends, my decoys). twitter made me nervous in the same way that blogger does. i should be used to the idea by now, but i really don’t want to be found as an online presence. i want to keep my selves consolidated, or something, and it bothers me to have hard records of the old ones lying around out there.

  *i appreciate the sentiment - really!

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