If you don’t “get” Facebook and Twitter, read this NY Times article

But, as a look at Facebook's numbers would show, they began using it in far greater numbers.

I think that adding the feed and the apps forced me to use Facebook the way it was meant to be used. I got rid of all but 70 friends, people I cared about, and suddenly it became a very productive way to plan out events and talk to friends in the middle of class. No spam, no feed updates that I don't care about.

Thus the core of the problem: if you don't "get" Facebook/Twitter, it doesn't help to read about other people who do.

The article explains how it works -- ambient awareness and all that -- but it doesn't explain why I'd want that, if I'm not one who already "gets it". Why do I want 1000 asymmetric "weak ties"?

I have noticed that the people who use twit/book the most are those with cell phones. If you don't have a Blackberry welded to your hip, tweeting "I'm making a sandwich" has way too much overhead.

Ah-ah-ah. It also happens on every last college campus in America.

And he quoted quite a lot from the article too - too much to claim fair use I think.

Twiddle thumbs... whistle a bit...

On a more serious note, there was a link here to the "best" 100 Twitter accounts. That might help. Or not. I dunno: I stopped using Twitter.

I only made an account for myself when I saw that I had friends that were having interesting conversations in there. I don't see how having an account for you alone could be useful if you have nobody to talk to (it's like having an msn account if you haven't any useful contacts... twitter is as good as your contacts so beware of adding random people).

I understand but the counter point is, how big is your ego? to think that the whole world would follow?