Thing 5: Beyond MyFaceSpaceBooking

Well, once again, I already had a Twitter prior to doing this... Thing... I had joined probably just under a year ago, right before the Twitter bug hit the entire population, or at least that's how it seemed to occur. I actually followed an interesting usage curve over the past few months of being a "Tweeter."

• First, prior to actually joining Twitter, I held the same opinion as many others that I've spoken to that are also Twitter-virgins: "I don't get it, isn't it just like... Facebook statuses?"
• I ended up joining because I lost internet, thus no Facebook access, so I thought I'd give Twitter a shot to help me stay in touch with my friends more conveniently through SMS notifications.
• I quickly became an addict, Tweeting many times everyday. The addiction grew as more and more of my friends joined and I reached a point where my friends and I would have @reply conversations going... sometimes with all of us in the same room...
• Recently, I've hit my downward slope on my Twitter curve. I've actually turned off my SMS notifications and only Tweet occasionally.

All in all, I think Twitter and other social journals can be a very useful social communication tool, as long as they're not abused and overused.