ZD NET - Jan 18 - Twitter exploded into the broader public consciousness
in 2009, and became the topic of endless debate in the ‘mainstream
media’. The clinical psychologist Oliver James has his reservations.
“Twittering stems from a lack of identity. It’s a constant update of
who you are, what you are, where you are. Nobody would Twitter if they
had a strong sense of identity.” For Alain de Botton, author of Status
Anxiety and the forthcoming The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Twitter
represents “a way of making sure you are permanently connected to
somebody and somebody is permanently connected to you, proving that you
are alive. Mark Brooks brings up a core value of the benefits of this
type of conversational social computing in a blog post titled ‘Is
Facebook A Catalyst For World Peace?‘ FULL ARTICLE @ ZD NET