See You At “The Digital Backfence”

Posted in Social Media by David on July 21st, 2007

Author and Yahoo! executive, Susan Mernit, on social networks and what’s motivating people to create community online:

We want to be local, not global. Small is beautiful, and a digital backfence like Facebook’s status updates or Twitter, has irresistible appeal.

Have you played with Twitter yet? It’s microblogging, ideally suited for the mobile platform. Although one can just as easily interface with Twitter via the desktop.

Most people throw up random notes in answer to the question, “What are you doing?” I decided to give my Twitter log a tighter focus.

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