Does any Twitter page count as a 'person'? That is, I signed up to follow 'The Onion', 'Psychology Today', and 'Social Psychology', as well as health-writer 'Andrew Well, M.D.'.
My twitter name is 'Midrivdan'.
Since I just signed up, I'll try to reserve judgment for a while; however, at this point I remain un-seduced by Twitter. So far, this 'assignment' has only confirmed what a huge time-sink Twitter is. I think the technology preys (albeit unintentionally) on the easily distracted, ADHD types such as myself. There's just TOO many choices and options for what appears to be a lot of disjointed, irrelevant information. It reminds me a lot of the listservs for which I signed up years ago. Everyday, I still get numerous messages from each of a half dozen listservs. It is so daunting that I pretty much hit 'select all' and 'delete' when a clump of message appear in my In-Box. I do briefly scan the subject titles and occasionally open one that appears potentially interesting (the majority of time it turns out not to be), but mostly I treat it all as garbage. Gosh, I'm sounding like such a curmudgeon. Maybe I should see if there is a curmudgeon twitter page and follow it. :-/
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