Nextbigthingitude? What a great word Halley has dreamed up for Twitter. But it’s more than that.
Twitter is an experiment in turning OFF a few social taboos, to see what happens next.
Twitter, like blogging, shuts down the taboo that says “Don’t talk about yourself, people don’t care.” Twitter, like Orkut, gives delicious permission to ask for and offer friendship to people you like, while withholding your friendship from people you don’t like so much.
Don’t string theorists believe that the world has tons of extra rolled-up dimensions? Twitter-ers are playing games with the social dimensions, collapsing a few just to see what might happen next.
And what happens next is, most likely, that we all get bored. Or maybe we don’t.
Maybe we decide we want this crazy new-fangled interaction toy that nobody wanted before it was invented–just the way we decided we want email and cellphones.
Besides–it’s fun being part of this experiment–join me!