I've been reading the phlogosphere about the birds ruining the
elephant sanctuary. It has mostly made me think of why did I rule
these platforms out quite instinctively. The same goes for IRC
as well. I have never really been interested in short form
broadcasted messaging.
I think it may be that the field is balanced against me quite
heavily in short form messaging. It's too fast, it's too short,
it's too much and all the time.
Thinking back on the people who love twitter, and the people who
did use IRC, they are a lot more extraverted than I am. There is
this idea that you can tell the difference between extraverts and
introverts by the time their brain processes stuff. Extraverts
are faster and shallower. I think this is something they actually
could see in brain scans. So, even if you never see people, you
can be an extravert. It's just that you need more stimuli from
outside. It seems reasonable to me to say twitter is more
extraverted than facebook, which is more extraverted than
bulleting boards.
I think gopher might be the least extraverted place you can find,
while still having a sense of community.
