{"id":2090,"date":"2007-05-08T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2007-05-08T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T21:04:43","slug":"passionately-resisting-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/passionately-resisting-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Passionately resisting Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Sierra of <a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/\">Creating Passionate Users<\/a> distrusts Twitter. Why? <\/p>\n<p>The big three reasons, she explains, are: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/2007\/03\/is_twitter_too_.html\">1) it&#8217;s a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable reward, the key addictive element of slot machines.<br \/>\n2) The strong &#8220;feeling of connectedness&#8221; Twitterers get can trick the brain into thinking its having a meaningful social interaction, while another (ancient) part of the brain &#8220;knows&#8221; something crucial to human survival is missing.<br \/>\n3) Twitter is yet another&#8211;potentially more dramatic&#8211;contribution to the problems of always-on multi-tasking&#8230; you can&#8217;t be Twittering (or emailing or chatting, of course) and simultaneously be in deep thought and\/or a flow state.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being Kathy there is much more said and said with wit, insight and probably from within the flow state and with <a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/03\/16\/twittercurve.jpg\">graphics<\/a> &#8212; and followed by some spirited discussion.<\/p>\n<p>But Kathy, I&#8217;m from a large family and I need the noise to be able to concentrate! Twitter is just about the right volume &#8212; and I do keep it on the virtual desktop with email so&#8217;s I don&#8217;t have to see it if I don&#8217;t want to. Can I still be in the flow state, please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users distrusts Twitter. Why? The big three reasons, she explains, are: 1) it&#8217;s a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable reward, the key addictive element of slot machines. 2) The strong &#8220;feeling of connectedness&#8221; Twitterers get can trick the brain into thinking its having a meaningful social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}