I am on the computer quite a bit, and have a generational bent toward using technology in a beneficial way. I started emailing in the 90s, blogging, myspace, and facebook in the 2000s, and here on the doorstep of 010s I've signed up with Twitter. Now, in my defense, I do not spend nearly as much time on the social networking sites as many of my peers, but what I've found with Twitter is that I can fake it. Twitter is connected to Facebook, and now my blogger account so that with relatively little effort I can stay in touch with the virtual world.
My fondness for twitter has really increased of late as we've started using it as a key form of communication at Severn River Church. Email is dead to my generation with the exception of business applications. It is very rare to send a personal email anymore. In the words of one 19 year old, "Email is for old people." The mode of communication today is the text message which is basically an email that doesn't require an email address only a phone number. Everyone carries their inbox in their pocket. Twitter allows us to send messages and then distribute them to all followers of that feed. For instance, this Thursday the set list will go out to band members following srcband of songs we're playing for Sunday. Could other people, random people, strange people choose to follow it? Sure, but I don't know why they would. The key is getting our people to follow it, and it has improved communication 80%.
So now I've connected my blog posts to twitter as well. It's the new RSS as that goes.
--Ben
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