A Micro-blog-less world.
With both Facebook AND Twitter down and/or acting a fool this morning it is making it tough to vent about one on the other, or vice versa and I am forced to blow off steam on the corporate Vert blog (which will subsequently be auto-posted to both Facebook and Twitter once they get their game faces on).
Which brings me to my next thought… what would we do if social networking was banned tomorrow? Perhaps Congress decides that Twitter and Facebook users get more opportunities in life because of their constant inter-connectedness and in an effort to level the playing field the “Federal Social Posting Ban Act” is signed into law. Now that we have a taste for the forbidden fruit of friends, fans, and followers (that’s alliteration) – are we addicted? When do the withdrawals start?
Apparently they set in immediately because I am already tweaking and Hootsuite just changed it’s business plan to be a chain of boutique hotels for travelers with pet owls. The point is that between international crises and the sharing of links, videos, pictures, and news – many of our lives can be defined by our news feeds. It is arguable that we can’t go back to “the old ways” of thinking and we have become desensitized to the 24/7, uber-connectedness of information and the ease of sharing ones thoughts and interests at anytime, anywhere.
Whatever the result, there would undoubtedly be hundreds of developers tirelessly coding to come up with the next big utility to take it’s place (without breaking the new legislation of course). Perhaps socially trained carrier pigeons that only deliver messages to our selected list of followers – brings a new meaning to the term “Tweet” doesn’t it?
Cheers!
-Kevin
