Comments on: It’s All Communication, People! #blogher09 http://www.stephaniebambam.net/its-all-communication-people-blogher09/ A Journal of Random Things Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steve Greenberg http://www.stephaniebambam.net/its-all-communication-people-blogher09//comment-page-1#comment-206 Steve Greenberg Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:40:40 +0000 http://www.stephaniebambam.net/?p=546#comment-206 Same here. I almost never talk to anyone by phone anymore, it's all SMS and Twitter. My only comment is that email hasn't stopped, it's just that "social" messages have moved. A private Facebook message *is* email. It has a "to", a "from", and a message body. It's store-and-forward. It's email. It's just a closed email system. MySpace only sends to MySpace users, Facebook only lets you send to Facebook users. Stops spam, so it's not all bad, but it also means that you have to check multiple places. I believe, that Twitter and SMS are basically the same thing, and will merge. The 140 character limit is the killer feature. Everything can be created and consumed on mobiles. "Real time everything" is mostly Valley hype. There are some shiny, shiny new real time things that you can do, and they're very cool, but they're not why Twitter is important. Same here. I almost never talk to anyone by phone anymore, it’s all SMS and Twitter. My only comment is that email hasn’t stopped, it’s just that “social” messages have moved. A private Facebook message *is* email. It has a “to”, a “from”, and a message body. It’s store-and-forward. It’s email. It’s just a closed email system. MySpace only sends to MySpace users, Facebook only lets you send to Facebook users. Stops spam, so it’s not all bad, but it also means that you have to check multiple places.

I believe, that Twitter and SMS are basically the same thing, and will merge. The 140 character limit is the killer feature. Everything can be created and consumed on mobiles. “Real time everything” is mostly Valley hype. There are some shiny, shiny new real time things that you can do, and they’re very cool, but they’re not why Twitter is important.

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.stephaniebambam.net/its-all-communication-people-blogher09//comment-page-1#comment-205 Jennifer Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:42:54 +0000 http://www.stephaniebambam.net/?p=546#comment-205 I couldn't agree more. And the people who do not use facebook, Twitter, email and such like we do, simply do not understand this. I actually had an old friend of mine (without a computer) send me a snotty text saying that the only way she guess she can talk to me is if she is online. Well - that's not entirely true, but yes, it is how people are doing things more and more. I couldn’t agree more. And the people who do not use facebook, Twitter, email and such like we do, simply do not understand this. I actually had an old friend of mine (without a computer) send me a snotty text saying that the only way she guess she can talk to me is if she is online. Well – that’s not entirely true, but yes, it is how people are doing things more and more.

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