Saturday, April 11, 2009

How many Virtual worlds?

How many virtual worlds are you in?

I have a SL -life (or did, I don't keep up anymore), accounts on link-in, twitter, FB, myspace, right here, and most other accounts that I will forget. Now, my friend has turned me onto a way to keep all these things organized and updated with one post (thanks, David). This seems to defeat part of the purpose. Afterall, are you communicating or broadcasting? My ego wants to be on as many new and groovy things as time and sanity allows, but I would hesitate whether the "pasta effect" is transactional communication. That being said, when you do have small groups aligned on Twitter, for example, that community is getting, hopefully, what they need and in turn can communicate their levels of interest.

another facinating aspect of this communication is an example from fwtno, who reviewed a technology conference via twitter. Now that sounds like community communicating! I know as someone who is not the chattiest person (for example, see last blog post date) in the real world, that I may not have the opportunity to assert myself. It seems twitter in such a scenerio would allow me to see many other points of view while adding my own.

I know it is human nature to want the next best, biggest,fastest, and newest thing. Lord knows that no one wants to be seen as a laggard. "Innovator" as a personal adjective is respectable, but never "laggard." I guess I am going to adopt the "early majority" curve on this.