Barry wrote:

And who the heck cares that you had eggs for breakfast, other than you and your partner?

The egg lobby? Seriously, the most annoying thing to me about Twitter is that when you post or converse about something, you often get reactions from the metaphorical egg lobby - companies or groups out to promote their interests by looking for search terms and "cold calling" users about their products. Just yesterday I responded to a post asking for advice on survey software - and got a tweet from a survey software company promoting their product instead. A great advantage of FB is that you don't have to be friends with the egg lobby... As for the breakfast question - I often get culinary inspiration from what people say they're eating. No different than a coworker talking about the great food they had last night for dinner. -Jason --- Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Chair of Film & Media Culture Department Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center at Starr Library Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Homepage: http://go.middlebury.edu/mittell Blog: http://go.middlebury.edu/justtv