Comments on: Twitter: An Asymmetrical Chat Room http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/12/06/twitter-an-asymmetrical-chat-room/ Improving the human experience one day at a time Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:38:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Whitney Hess http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/12/06/twitter-an-asymmetrical-chat-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2927 Whitney Hess Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:03:04 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=680#comment-2927 I love that distinction about remembering. You're so right. I try to tell people all the time that Twitter is just real life relationships finally digitally realized, but I think it takes a lot of personal use to see it that way. Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Geoff! I love that distinction about remembering. You're so right. I try to tell people all the time that Twitter is just real life relationships finally digitally realized, but I think it takes a lot of personal use to see it that way. Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Geoff!

]]> By: Geoff Barnes http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/12/06/twitter-an-asymmetrical-chat-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2921 Geoff Barnes Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:08:05 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/?p=680#comment-2921 Nice post. Interestingly, the overlapping twitter conversations as you're describing them are online conversational micro-equivalents of IRL relationship maintenance. We have both common and uncommon friends, and we engage them in conversation on different bases and with differing regularity. We've all got friends about whom we only hear from common friends or acquaintances. Some of us talk to our family more regularly than we talk to our employees or employers.<br><br>What Twitter does, that IRL conversations cannot, is remember - for anyone interested to look - non-private exchanges between all these sometimes-overlapping-but-mostly-disparate parties. Nice post. Interestingly, the overlapping twitter conversations as you're describing them are online conversational micro-equivalents of IRL relationship maintenance. We have both common and uncommon friends, and we engage them in conversation on different bases and with differing regularity. We've all got friends about whom we only hear from common friends or acquaintances. Some of us talk to our family more regularly than we talk to our employees or employers.

What Twitter does, that IRL conversations cannot, is remember – for anyone interested to look – non-private exchanges between all these sometimes-overlapping-but-mostly-disparate parties.

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