April 21, 2009
On Sunday evening I unfollowed well over half the people that I was following on Twitter. My criteria for whom to unfollow was simple: anyone that I had opportunities to meet and talk with in my day-to-day activities (coworkers) or could meet with a small amount of effort (Gabe).
I didn’t quit Twitter —- it still fills a niche where distance and schedules don’t afford the type of opportunities at “catching up” that I’d like and in these cases, I can live with Twitter as a poor substitute for the real thing. But I don’t want that poor substitution to continue as the standard.