Are we thinking in 140 Characters?

All of us are drifters. Or just tying to keep up with what’s new (I am no exception). When it comes to adopting or adapting to a new Social networking site , blogging space or whatever ; there are two kinds of people .Some who join in because his friend told him that “ it’s so cool “ that his neighbor yelled at him in his Facebook account for keeping the music loud ( DUH !! ) . And some like my nephews who have kept time apart to understand the lingo of the site they have joined so that they can brag about who “OWND “who in the Crisis “tournie” they had yesterday.

And you felt that the dust has settled on who will be crowned as THE BIG thing? WRONG ! ( Alarm ). Blogspot, Wordpress, Facebook,Myspace,Orkut,Twitter , Yammer – Just to name a few. You see a new site emerging every day with invites spamming your email account. And if that’s nothing , developers are trying to make money out of these popular ones with their own rip-off’s which has multiple accounts linked in one way or another ( Too much of a mess if you ask me ). Gone are the days when some one asked you “ What’s your email account ?“( My mom gives a stare and asks me “ What happened to Whats your name “). No surprises when the contact addresses are changed to twitter.com/nick

All of us want to blog ( or want to be there for the heck of it ). Books were written on Blog-Etiquettes ( Give me a break, I want to be express myself freely somewhere ) and it was almost certain that blogs were the next big thing when Evan Williams dropped out of one of the major players and formed Twitter with a small bird as the logo ( The whale is a big contender if you ask me ;-) ) . With no effort , your followers increase in number and you get a tweet-by-tweet report of what Jack Black did when he was in the backstage of Ozzfest last time .Frenzied media have moved into the space as well with updates with “links” to their news page. The best I know of anyone gaining from twitter is that guy who made a CNN user account even before tweets were making rounds/waves. Heard he was hired or CNN bought the account for huge sum ( Not sure of this.) breaking twitter’s rules.

So , is it for the better or worst ? Have we started thinking in 140 characters these days? Are you an addict ? The tweets thoughts linger.