Twitter: how to avoid caring about people

Apr 4, 01:03 PM by Eric Allen

I’m struck by the attitude taken in an article I just read about how Twitter is changing lives. To be honest, I remain very skeptical. How can you really connect with people when all you’re doing is seeing their broadcasts and making your own? It takes the caring out of communicating, allowing people to ignore each other at will. In particular, the author says:

Because Twitter has allowed me to meet and converse with people all over the world, without much of a commitment. The tweets come in as a stream, and if I see something engaging, I answer it. If not, I don’t.

That scares me. So we all feel “interconnected,” but none of us are actually connected? What happened to sitting down with people and talking? While you were whiling the time away sitting in your room “feeling the interconnectedness,” did you ever consider calling a friend up and going for a hike or something?

Generation Me, we can be better than this.