Twittering of sparrows
February 7, 2008
When we were little, my mother taught us to play mahjong - probably a very inauthentic Chinese version – I don’t know where she learnt to play! But I loved between games when we ‘twittered the sparrows’ – shuffling the tiles together to make a clicking noise.
The what is twitter guide? assures me that when you first join twitter you may feel lonely! I love the irony of that. Social networks have the potential to show you just how isolated you are. To what extent do young people really meet other new people, and what kind of depth is there in their new contacts? I like the fact that flickr recognises that I have contacts as distinct from friends or family.
Anyway, back to feeling isolated. When I join up with Twitter I get stuck on the page (happened in hi5 the other day too when my ex-students invited me to join) where I’m asked for other people’s email addresses (none of the people whose addresses I might know actually use twitter!) and my Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail email addresses – none of which I currently possess!
There are any number of suggestions as to how to use Twitter here. Maybe if I used my phone to send… – but I’m still unsure to what end. Anyway, I am now an official twitterer, but a lonely one…
Hi Karen,
Check the microblogging group so as to add some followers and then check who they are following.