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What an unfortunate time for people to be unaware of Christie’s loss of Rebel today.

I have a twitter account, but I forget the name and I haven’t used it for fear of lack of privacy—does anyone have an issue about that?

What I don’t like is when someone both rejects a form of media — television, social media, the Web, email lists, the radio, whatever — and confounds its form with its content.

Twitter might be something you don’t find useful because you have an existing source of similar information that is meeting your needs, because you are not/don’t want to be online enough to use it effectively, because you prefer less information with more context and commentary to more information with little or none of either (although you self-select for context on Twitter by subscribing to people’s feeds, so that’s not necessarily relevant here)… the list could be endless.

But that doesn’t mean that Twitter IS useless, or that it’s a demonic force out to suck your brains away via the Interwebz, or that people who find it fun and useful are weird or geeky or somehow “other” than the rest of the planet.

Micro-blogging is simply a form of communication, just like any other. It has natural limitations related to the “micro” part, but in the case of Twitter those are by design. It was always meant to be used by people who are using mobile devices, and it was meant to be lean and fast.

Certainly I don’t want lean and fast to be all there is, but there are times when lean and fast is just what you need.

So while Twitter the FORM might be a matter of taste, the information shared on Twitter is not. It’s just information. You might prefer to get your information in another way (taste), but information is not a matter of “taste” per se.