Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration

WSJdpatton writes "The growth of services like Twitter and Dodgeball, which tie together instant messaging, social networking and wireless communication, elicits mixed feelings in the technology-savvy people who have been their early adopters. Fans say they are a good way to keep in touch with busy friends. But some users are starting to feel 'too' connected, as they grapple with check-in messages at odd hours, higher cellphone bills and the need to tell acquaintances to stop announcing what they're having for dinner."

Comments

Re:What's for dinner?

[ColdWetDog]

I know you can "only be young once, but you can be immature forever", however why do people want to be 15 year old girls for the rest of their lives?

Being a teenager once was quite enough, thank you.

And I'll take that pony now.

Re:Prior art

[HomelessInLaJolla]

I'm surprised that many web sites are given venture capital money and later, bought out. Just no good way to capitalize on a service that other people give away free You've just touched on the social psychology behind a pyramid scheme.

Everyone contributes, only a few profit. Lots of that venture capital came from tax money, lots more came from 401(k) investments where the people investing only knew their investments as conglomerate funds.

Pretty sad that it's allowed to continue this way.