So a bleary-eyed friend says to me, “I was up all night talking with guys from all over the place.”
He told me that it took some getting used to—the messages needed to be pretty short.
He continued the story and said the name he uses when “talking” with his friends. It was a bit unusual, but short.
He talked about the “rig” he used to connect with all his friends.
His friends used a strange language that abbreviated everything since the communication had to be short.
That was 1975 when my friend, Kana, told me about his CB radio exploits.
Sounded a lot like a conversation with a twitter user, didn’t it?
But there are several big differences. twitter has the ability to let people of like interests connect without geographic boundaries. It is those like interests that make a community.
Conversing with the community compounds the relationships and aggregates the knowledge. With twitter that conversation is stored and searchable.
In the twitter age, just don’t expect to hear C.W. McCall singing:
Ah, twitter one-nine, this here’s the rubber duck. you gotta copy on me, pig pen, c’mon? ah, yeah, 10-4, pig pen, fer shure, fer shure. by golly, its clean clear to flag town, cmon. yeah, that Big 10-4 there, pig pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy...
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