Do you Twitter?

Seema Singh — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:18:00 GMT

Earlier this week after meeting someone (from the industry), I asked for his email since he had run out his business card. The person said, "I am on FaceBook, you can get me there."

I replied, "But I am not...or well, I am, but my registration is incomplete". (I keep getting mails to complete it, but I've incorrigibly failed to oblige the Facebook team.)

"Then I am also on LinkedIn, are you?"

"Err...yes, I am but I don't remember my password, and every time I get an invitation, I plan to resolve the forgotten password issue, but till date it remains just that - forgotten".

"Do you Twitter?"

I lost my patience then. What's wrong with the good old email? I think it works better than anything else? The gentleman did make me feel a bit outdated but then I had my run of social networking long before any of these websites became a rage. In 2003, I registered for Ryze and soon realized it was a waste of time.

So, when I failed in making a ‘social networking' mark this week, I remembered a famous cartoon by Peter Steiner from July 5, 1993, issue of the The New Yorker.

Credit: The New Yorker

Incidentally, In its 12 September 2005 issue The New Yorker carried another cartoon by Alex Gregory in which one dog talking to another said: "I had my own blog for a while, but I decided to go back to just pointless, incessant barking."

Well, I am not giving up blogging yet, but I've indeed given up on social networking sites! As far as ‘networking' with ‘potential sources' is concerned, I think for a journalist the old-fashioned ways of connecting by phone/email/in person work pretty well.

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Do you Twitter?