New Yorker Journalist “Afraid of Twitter because it’s like crack”

| Feb 03, 2010 | 6 comments

Your brain on TwitterIn a recent article titled Stop the World Posted by George Packer of The New Yoker the author goes on a rather long winded rant about his fear of Twitter, going as far as comparing it to crack and stating that he won’t even considering using the service for fear that he’ll let his child go hungry while he feeds his addiction.

Dear Mr. Packer, I will kindly thank you to stay far, far away from Twitter and/or any other similar service until you can get over your fear and have something to contribute to this spectacular forum of shared information.

After all, the beauty of Twitter is that you control your stream of information by choosing whom you follow. And by contributing valuable information you open yourself up to an entire world of of possibilities, be it on a business or personal level.

What shocks me the most is that we are still having the conversation. Every time there is a new technology a certain group of people resists, 15 years ago the average person would have told you that they don’t need email or even a cell phone.  Now we HAVE to get our email on our cell phone or we might miss something. And while we may have taken that to a bit of an extreme I do believe we are far more efficient because of it. I know I am. Plus, I have the power at anytime to shut it all down, because it isn’t crack and I’m not actually addicted to it.

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Michelle D'Attilio (@identify_urself) is the President of Corporate Identity Solutions, LLC, a branding and website development company. She is half of the TweetUp Girls (@tweetupgirls) with Jeanette Pham (@identifyourself) which helps businesses take their social media investment to the next level through social media based events. She is a self-described techy and gadget geek who is crazy about tennis. Identify-Yourself.com
  • http://intensedebate.com/people/ZenInsight ZenInsight

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/mobloso Travis Wright

    Most journalists and old-school people are scared of the power of mass communication.

    The way in which people communicate are changing. Paradigms have to be rethought when it comes to communication.

    As I talked about in my newspaper industry article… Mingleverse.com is a very cool idea… an interesting solution.

    But, most of the journalists will be scared of it… heh. They'd better be scared, if they don't change, they are out of a job… and out of an industry! They'd better be careful… and never stop learning!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/mobloso Travis Wright

    by the way, Crack kills.

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