from flickr: dbarronoss

I was challenged to try twitter for two weeks. It’s taken me around 24 hours to love it. It’s like the bodysnatchers.

One thing I happened to read a few days ago was someone proclaiming how sad it was that we needed these shallow social apps to keep in touch. Why don’t we just pick up the phone?

Pretty true I thought. But in practice, I’ve found that friendships run deeper when there is some kind of web connecting them. People I don’t see every day, whether online or off, tend to fall off my radar. Not because I don’t like them or because I don’t care but because that’s human nature.

Or maybe I really don’t care. Whichever, I think that it’s better to actively maintain relationships by any means that work than see them dissolve through inadvertent neglect.