Charred Tech

Talking to family a few months ago I predicted that social networking will begin to evolve shortly into something pretty creepy, not that it isn’t already. I explained that soon you will be able to look at someone’s social networking page, whether it be Facebook, Myspace, or whatever, and see what they are doing, where they are doing it, and even watch them do it. This was shortly after I read about Yahoo’s upcoming Fire Eagle project and began thinking about what social networking will be like say next year or so. Believe it or not my prediction has already come true.

This years hottest venture has to be Twitter.com, you can’t visit a blog or turn on a podcast without reading or hearing about it, TWiT fans know what I’m talking about. The service has been going up and down lately which in turn has created even more buzz as it seems every site has to report on it going down. For the unenlightened I’m tempted to describe Twitter for you as a microblog, but if I hear that term again I’m gonna throw something, so I’ll describe it as basically a collection of Facebook status messages, you have the ability to follow people and read the posts they make throughout the day, in turn people can follow you and read yours. But this isn’t meant to be a post about what Twitter is, you can Google it if you want more