{"id":53,"date":"2008-08-01T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-08-01T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T14:14:17","slug":"twitter-and-keeping-in-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2008\/08\/twitter-and-keeping-in-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter and keeping in touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/458526638_bc68293426.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57\" title=\"458526638_bc68293426\" src=\"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/458526638_bc68293426-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"from flickr: dbarronoss\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/458526638_bc68293426-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/458526638_bc68293426.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">from flickr: dbarronoss<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was challenged to try twitter for two weeks. It&#8217;s taken me around 24 hours to love it. It&#8217;s like the bodysnatchers.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t we just pick up the phone?<\/p>\n<p>Pretty true I thought. But in practice, I&#8217;ve found that friendships run deeper when there is some kind of web connecting them. People I don&#8217;t see every day, whether online or off, tend to fall off my radar. Not because I don&#8217;t like them or because I don&#8217;t care but because that&#8217;s human nature.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I really don&#8217;t care. Whichever, I think that it&#8217;s better to actively maintain relationships by any means that work than see them dissolve through inadvertent neglect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was challenged to try twitter for two weeks. It&#8217;s taken me around 24 hours to love it. It&#8217;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&#8217;t we just pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68],"tags":[72,71,70,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}