Twitter overload:= poor S/N
Steve, K9ZW recently posted to his ham radio blog about the worth of Twitter. His post hits on the very thing that has kept me away from dabbling in the world of Twitter – I simple don’t have any more bandwidth (time) for either posting (”Tweeting”) or reading about the minutia of day-to-day life.
I can post something to my blog every now and then, keep up with a few ham radio forums and such but I certainly can’t afford even a second to two to be distracted with messages that KZ0ZXZ is now boarding a train for El Paso.
Steve notes that one ham has a goal of “tweeting” 10,000 times in a year. Yikes. What possible value could that have to anyone? I could see some value in group using Twitter to meet at the Dayton Hamvention – when you’re all trying to meet you’d know that Frank’s at Denny’s having breakfast, Chuck’s in the flea market and Stan is lugging a boat anchor to the car. That’s about it though.
If you had to explain Twitter to a ham radio buddy and show the value what would you say? I might describe Twitter as something like a packet spotting network that only shows spots for your buddies. Or maybe a APRS system that only shows location data for your buddies. What good is that? Good question. There are a few rare times that I’d really be interested, but usually it’s simply more noise.
Perhaps I’m a bit too old for the entire social computing scene. Perhaps I’m simply too busy and need to shed some urgent but not-important activities. Either way, for now, you won’t see me on Twitter.
Of course, ironically, some may read this post and note that a blog posting about not Twittering adds no value itself. You’re correct – sorry I mentioned it.
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