{"id":4273,"date":"2008-09-08T11:59:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T18:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2008-09-08T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:22:51","slug":"fragments-shored-against-our-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4273\/fragments-shored-against-our-ruin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragments Shored Against Our Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Clive Thompson just wrote a brilliant article for the New York Times magazine, describing the cumulative impact of following someone across Twitter, Facebook and other social media<\/a>. I read it with interest because Redfin has been thinking about embedding our agents’ micro-blogs into Redfin’s site, so that clients can get updates (e.g.\u00a0touring properties in Capitol Hill) <\/em>and\u00a0timely, local advice (e.g.\u00a0seeing a lot of price reductions in Noe Valley<\/em>).<\/p>\n

But the New York Times article was interesting for personal reasons too, because it speaks to how anti-social people in social software can be.<\/p>\n

I’ve already struggled to describe the phenomenon of feeling loved, but by no one in particular<\/a>, of not-being alone when you are totally alone, of intimacy with everyone (several friends have told their inquisitive mothers to “just read my blog” and I always wonder how that makes the moms feel).<\/p>\n

Clive’s most interesting argument is that the cumulative effect of a Twitter feed is larger than we realize. “Merely looking at a stranger\u2019s Twitter or Facebook feed isn\u2019t interesting,” Clive writes, “because it seems like blather. Follow it for a day, though, and it begins to feel like a short story; follow it for a month, and it\u2019s a novel.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that I completely agree. A friend of mine once paid $9.95 a month to get a daily voice-mail from Jose Canseco when Canseco was a slugger for the A’s; every day, he mumbled something about working out and washing his hair (nothing about Madonna). It was somehow even more disappointing than we thought it could be.<\/p>\n

But Clive’s observation does begin to answer the question people always ask about why anyone bothers to update Twitter three times a day: it’s the only way most of us can write a novel, piece by piece. And it’s the only way most people will read one either, 160 characters at a time. I think his point was that the most evanescent thing in the world, a twitter, might be the most permanent thing we have.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it seems like the Internet is an elaborate record of our contradictions, our multitudes<\/a>, which we can blast off Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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