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A parable, annoyingly told, in six Twitter-sized parts:
(stitched together and formatted for readability here)
Imagine there was an important piece of information relevant to the election. You ran into a Starbucks, and told a couple people. Then they told a couple more. Pretty soon the whole coffee shop was discussing this information, which was important and certainly helped them decide how to vote. When the coffee shop closed, they all went home but never told anyone else that information, even though it was important news.
When election day came, everyone who was in the coffee shop was amazed that the other voters, a vast number, didn't know this information. The other voters voted based on what they heard on the news between feeding the kids and rushing to the hockey game. They googled nothing.
That coffee shop is Twitter.
Remember to talk when you're away from keyboards. Everybody on here is just a tiny fraction of everybody else.
(stitched together and formatted for readability here)
Imagine there was an important piece of information relevant to the election. You ran into a Starbucks, and told a couple people. Then they told a couple more. Pretty soon the whole coffee shop was discussing this information, which was important and certainly helped them decide how to vote. When the coffee shop closed, they all went home but never told anyone else that information, even though it was important news.
When election day came, everyone who was in the coffee shop was amazed that the other voters, a vast number, didn't know this information. The other voters voted based on what they heard on the news between feeding the kids and rushing to the hockey game. They googled nothing.
That coffee shop is Twitter.
Remember to talk when you're away from keyboards. Everybody on here is just a tiny fraction of everybody else.
