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There seems to be a lot of buzz that goes through peaks and valleys around Twitter. Initially my instincts told me that the Twitter world was not for me– I’m inherently much too private of a person to perpetually answer the question of “what are you doing?”. But for whatever reason, I started to enjoy the wonkeyness of being part of the Twitter community, most especially, last Friday when I experienced my first earthquake since moving to SF.
As many of you know, I have a tendency to do relatively crazy things like move across the country (several times), find myself in adventurous scenarios that leave friends and family (and me) wondering how the heck I got there, and to live in cities where I don’t know many people (if anyone). So to the latter point, as I’ve mentioned before, I recently moved to San Francisco knowing only one (fabulous) friend and her (fabulous) husband.
So, on Friday evening when I experienced my first SF earthquake, I quickly turned on the news to see where it measured on the richter scale (having nothing to compare it to), and to see what others were saying/experiencing. And what they were saying was…nothing. Apparently, this lag-time that it takes for stories to hit the news has become unacceptable in the digital universe that I have become accustomed to, so there was only one logical (in my Friday-after-a-long-week state of mind) thing to do…
Go to Twitter.
There I found a whole slew of people buzzing about the earthquake within seconds of it happening, asking if others have felt it, predicting the size (3.5? 4.0?), and complaining about missing it.
Twitter-earthquake
Now, I do have to say that I “know” some of my Twitter peeps, but a lot of them I don’t. And strangely, when something (like an earthquake) happens, it feels good to know that, while I may not have people I can dial-up and discuss city-specific happenings with, there is a community of people experiencing and expressing how they feel about that very same thing.
So, thanks, Twitterville. Thanks for helping me feel a bit more at home in this new city full of strangers.
How do I explain CT’s, UV’s, CPA, CPC, GUM, blogs, twitter, flickr, etc., to my Pops when he asks what I do? I don’t. I just point to the high-tech sound machine in one of his many toys, the recent and beloved Jeepster, and yell (over the grizzly grrr of the engine) “can we at least turn the volume up on that thing?”
Hey, as long as the classic rock station plays alright (pending occasional tall tree signal blockage), there is clearly no need to ruin a good thing…
