A few days after posting “Why I Joined (and Quit) Twitter“, I was talking about it with Doug Koop, Editorial Director of ChristianWeek. Following our conversation, Doug penned an excellent piece, ”All that twitters is not gold“, exploring the attraction of Twitter and technologies like it. He concludes with a very positive perspective.
Here’s an excerpt to entice you into reading the entire article:
Marshall McLuhan famously observed that at first we shape our tools, but then our tools shape us. Twitter is a stellar example of our fast-paced culture’s breathless urgency to get noticed, and how the very pursuit shortens our attention spans to ever-smaller increments. Our ability to be attentive is compromised by our need to be noticed. Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame” have now shrunk to 140 characters of text.
Read the entire article here.
