I'm hungry, sick, and tired of writing this paper.

So here's a post I wanted to get into a bit.
Twitter vs. Facebook statuses.
So, Twitter had this idea to have a social network that shares short updates on what your doing. These are supposed to be between blog posts so people can see more of your day to day interests. This is a great idea and something I would love to start doing more with my friends. Except that the concept sounds awfully familiar. Facebook did the same thing. Not aimed at bloggers and more at people who want to find the best way to get attention but not be too direct. Admit it, you knew what you were doing when you set your status to "shouldn't have done that", "thinks you don't understand", or even "needs attention NOW!". Just waiting for someone to go, hey whats up so you can turn them down with the overly done, "no it's okay/not about you/leave me alone!". Sound familiar? Cause it happens every day on facebook. We check the status feed and kinda feel sad or pitiful. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it is just kinda silly. I've done it before. And in the moment you just want someone to care.
But! Do you ever just want to facts? I don't care if they are angry at someone, I just want to know what they are doing right now or tonight. That way I can get a feel if I could ask to hang out or not. For an example, some of my friends work during the week and I always forget their schedule, if there is even one. So I hate calling to see if their at work because if they are, they don't answer their phone. So it seems pointless. But if I could check their status and it was "working till 10" or "work", I would easily know.
Also, the status feed is for all your friends, your "friends", and that guy you had in one class in junior high that your pretty sure moved away and have no real social connection. So, although there are times I'd like to know what he's doing, because why not. I also would like a way to remove him from the possible feed updates.
Does it feel like I'm going somewhere with this yet? Good. Because I guess you could consider this a call to my friends, or the ones who read this, to sign up for a free twitter account and add each other. With at least a small amount of us using twitter it would be so much more effective than the, say 3 people I know that use it currently. So, do it. Everyone else will be doing it soon, so don't you want to be one of those people who did it first and do something that gives you leverage over your friends later on in life. I know that's why I did it, and it's not too late.
1. goto Twitter
2. follow me, mpow or go here to follow me.
3. tell a friend.