Such a very important update

Yeah...no. I lied. It's not important. I've just been thinking about things like Twitter, to which people voluntarily submit up-to-the-minute news reports about the mundane details of their days. These reports are sped over the interwebs directly to their friends, who can keep tabs on them at all times. It seems like knowing that so-n-so just ate a cookie or found their lost keys would be not only tedious, but an overload of information. Also, do we really want to voluntarily let people that far into our lives?

It makes me a bit worried about people in general. How can we continue to care about protecting our privacy when we're voluntarily allowing the whole world to spy on our every move?

Technology has made the world so much smaller. We're connected virtually to a vast crowd of people. It's made contacting someone a continent away as easy as popping next door. Things like MySpace and Facebook make it smaller still, where we can even know day to day what a friend has been doing. Twitter brings it an even more microscopic level--an up to the minute level. It's this last part I'm so very unsure about. Sometimes, especially in this day and age, I want the world to stop at the walls of my house, and not come inside.

I like being in contact with the people I care about. I enjoy knowing what folk are up to. I want my friends to know what I'm up to. However, I doubt I'll ever feel okay about serious twittering. I'm sure none of you are sad about that.

If I were to twitter, what sorts of things would I write?

I lost a red sweater. Then I found it.
I did work on the computer.
I thought about making goi cuon for dinner tomorrow.
I walked upstairs. I walked back downstairs.
Laundry. Cleaning.
Talked to my neighbor.
Soy candles smelled nice.
I worked on building a webcomic wiki.
I took off the red sweater that I found.
I lost the red sweater again.

Is anyone thrilled? Neh. I didn't think so.