And you know what people talk about most of the time? In no particular order:
- What they had or are going to have for breakfast/lunch/dinner.
- Last night’s TV or sports.
- How things are going at work.
- The weather.
- Personal gossip.
- Celebrity gossip.
Of course you’d like to think that most of your daily conversation is weighty and witty but instead everyone chats about pedestrian nonsense with their pals. In fact, that ephemeral chit-chat is the stuff that holds human social groups together.
The other day, Dave wondered, in regard to Twitter, “Now what? Is it a Twubble?”. Kottke’s post, and the others he links to, provide some good food for thought.
I have no doubt that social micro-messaging has a strong future, I just wonder, ultimately, how it fits in with the rest of our daily routines, and what our usage will look like in another year or two. My prediction is that there will be a lot less people drinking from the firehose. Twitter may be the underlying platform we’re all using, but I think we’ll move away from the twitter.com timeline, and clients like tweetdeck and twhirl, and rather be consuming bits and pieces here and there.
Mixing celebrity feeds in with those of our best friends: doomed to burnout and failure. A small community that’s always accessible from your mobile and desktop and that keeps the conversation alive, while following @oprah and @THE_REAL_SHAQ on the toilet: priceless.
