So, Britney’s “On Air” piece today is about Twitter.  Yes, it is a phenomenon.  Yes, there seem to be about a half billion people doing it…. and, yes, I sat mesmerized on a Friday night two weeks ago watching “Twittervision”… that is www.twittervision.com.  (For those of you who don’t know what it is, twittervision is a mash-up of what everyone is “twittering” about … world-wide… you know exciting things like …. “going to bed”, “really drunk… hang-over to follow”, “writing a paper, flunking a class”.)

In watching twittervision, I suppose I was more or less intrigued by the idea that people were all over the world “twittering” as I was watching it.  It does really hit home as you are watching this how connected the web makes us.

BUT, while social media is cool, I guess… there are some things that I do not need to know about or even care about ever knowing.  E.g., my friend Walt in Atlanta may say “going to the bathroom… will be back”…. I don’t need to know that.  But, as you “twitter”, you will find that this is what a lot of these posts are… “broke up with girlfriend… eating a sandwich”.  Alright, fantastic.  Thanks.

Like I said, the Internet is great for bringing us together.  But, do we really need to be that together?  I don’t have the need to know what my BFF (Since I am a 32-year old man, I don’t have BFFs… and if I did, I wouldn’t call them that!) is doing at the moment.
I am not a twitterer.  I guess I should give it a shot… so the world can know when I am “changing my daughter’s diaper”, “stuffing my face with Fig Newtons”, or “mowing the grass”… you know … really important stuff like that.  Alright, my wonderful readers, I am “going to the bathroom” right now… but, I guess you really didn’t want to know that, or did you?