Tweeting the night (and day) away!
I was surfing a few of the more interesting blogs this morning and came across the interesting fact that there are currently 600 Tweets per second at the moment which equates to 50m Tweets per day. Couple this with the millions of text messages and the decline in letter mail, it suggests that the way we communicate as a civilisation is fundamentally changing.
Our communication has become a 140 character or less chat rather than a considered conversation – we no longer ponder over what we say, we just say it – unfiltered and uncensored. To cope with this new staccato communication we have almost invented a new language – reducing words to a mix of characters and letters.
Is this good? For those who have read some of my previous posts you will know I think not – my view is that our legacy for the next generation is being lost in this ‘noise’ we now call communication.
One of the arguments for Social Media is the ability to increase and maintain contact with a wider circle of friends – which is sort of true, however the contact we have is typically very superficial.
No sooner had I penned the above when I came across an article in Wired magazine about how Twitter and Facebook make us more productive! What is interesting in the article, however, is the fact that Twitter and Facebook are responsible for a 1.5% drop in productivity in UK offices – how on earth do they come out with such a statistic as obviously it is 1.4 and not 1.5!
What are your thoughts on the new communications landscape – do you think it is attractive and/or sustainable?
