The Smorgasbord of Douglas Bell

A friend of mine, Daniel Brusilovsky, wrote a piece for TechCrunch yesterday called Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter. And while it’s definitely a well-written post, a good read, and I’m sure the facts about teens being a relatively small number when it comes to Twitter, I personally fall on a different side of the aisle.

Daniel spends a good portion of his post comparing teens’ opinions on Twitter to those of Facebook and MySpace. And granted, there is no dispute that those sites (mainly Facebook, these days) are more popular in the eyes of high school/college-aged teens. But I just don’t fit in the same category. Facebook still feels very foreign to me when I try to use it, yet Twitter is something I practically can’t live without these days, and I’ve been Twittering for two and a half years now. Heck, I now consider my tweets equal in importance to my blog posts, which is why they get equal billing on the home page of my new site. So in response to Daniel’s article, I wanted to take the opportunity to discuss why I am using Twitter and prefer it over the more traditional social networking sites.
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