Tag: friendships

Since using Twitter…

  • May 12, 2009 at 2:14 am

  • I keep telling people how my life has altered since using Twitter, even though I’m well aware of how sad that sounds. The thing is it’s not really about Twitter at all, but about people: all Twitter did was help me find them. This post will appear particularly self-indulgent: it’s trying to articulate something that [...]

Who’s watching who

  • March 13, 2009 at 9:47 pm

  • Ok, I’ve finally decided I may as well publish my Twitter mosaic; only because the look pretty, mind. (Mosaics were correct at the time of writing.) Friends These are the profiles which I find interesting enough to follow: Followers And these are all the folk who – for reasons known only to themselves – are [...]

How the internet supports friendships

  • February 1, 2009 at 7:41 am

  • The internet can be great for supporting and developing friendships, but it doesn’t create them by itself. It’s simply a tool: we use it to support the things we want to do in our lives, which include offline as well as online activity. Friendships may be part of that. Pete Ashton recently wrote about how [...]