Comments on: The 24 Hour Party Tweeple

By: Medication Interactions

Medication Interactions — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:51:55 +0000

I certainly feel accepted and appreciated by the core group of folks that I communicated with on Twitter. My wife sometimes tells me that my Twitter friends aren’t real friends and I strongly disagree (though I concede it’s a different type of friendship). In some ways, the relationships are more real because when the mode of communication are short.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:05:44 +0000

You have to assume there are many people on Twitter that have to use a persona because their personality in person would not be that great, possibly even down right awful.

By: Odzyskiwanie Danych

Odzyskiwanie Danych — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:37:36 +0000

Well you know not everyone is that comfortable with strangers. Maybe he didn’t mean to blow you off but it just kinda happened.

By: Affordable airline tickets

Affordable airline tickets — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:08:54 +0000

I’m not convinced that you do actually get to know peoples personalities on twitter.

Firstly, they are only showing you what they want you to see, and secondly, with the amount of people everyone follows, it’s a bit like putting a firehose down your throat.

By: Bud Hasherdashery

Bud Hasherdashery — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:38:06 +0000

Interesting thouoghts on Twitter…could on some level agree, but what about those that have multiple Twitter/email/online accounts and persona for the different parts of their lives. Are you getting to know the person, or just a segment of them, that compartmentalized part of the whole?

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:48:26 +0000

Meeting a person for the first time can be a stressful moment entirely by itself for some people. I’ve noticed some people I have met for the first time who I have had some contact with on social networks are strangely not as social in “real life”.

While this person may not be like that, I would however, like you, give him the benefit of the doubt and forgive him for his cold shoulder. Thisperson probably had a whole lot of stuff going on and maybe just wasn’t in the mood for an interruption. Although, I have been in many of the same type situations but have never failed to genuinely smile and ask forgiveness as I really did have to “go” and also made sure to reconnect later.