Don't blame the medium [Hmm]

I was lucky enough to get the phone number today of an educator who is a whiz at using Google Docs in the classroom. Before dinner, I gave her a call to see if I could soak up any of her knowledge. We spoke for a half-an-hour, with 25 minutes dedicated to the mundane issues of her life and 5 minutes of some great info on Google Docs sprinkled throughout.

Although the info really was great, it got lost in the blah blah blah of the rest of the conversation. I just can't handle going through that again, I thought to myself. As soon as I hung up with her, I dialed AT&T and canceled my cell phone plan.

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The previous story is not true. I made it up. How ridiculous would it be if it were true, though? Pretty ridiculous. That's how I feel when people tell me they "quit Twitter because they don't care about the mundane stuff in people's lives."

I'm not saying everyone has to be on Twitter, or even that it will be useful for everyone. There are just too many uses of Twitter that don't involve following people posting about their lives for that excuse to work. You control who you listen to (follow) and if their tweets don't fit with what you want to read, you unfollow them. Don't blame the medium.