sounds like we need multiple twitter accounts. but life may not be so neatly compartmentalized;-) how do you feel about Oscar Wilde. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Baym, Nancy wrote:
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:34:00 -0500 From: "Baym, Nancy" <nbaym@ku.edu> To: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Cc: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] facebook, twitter and annoyances
Of course it's complex. But what if another of that person's followers funds the food updates a lovely way to feel connected but is annoyed by all those professionally tinged informational links. "Interesting" is not a quality of message but of a particular listener's response to a message. "Almost all" is often an unwarranted assumption from one's own point of view. Furthermore, even if "almost all" holds, they may not be the people most important to the tweeter.
Nancy
On Oct 31, 2009, at 10:06 AM, "Barry Wellman" <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
1. Nancy, I think it is more complex. What if there are really interesting people whose posts are often filled with gems, but at the same posts some self-infatuated or status update stuff ("going for breakfast") ("sitting in my garden") stuff which is not interesting to almost all.