I was having a conversation recently with a staunchly non-social networking friend; debating the efficacy and relevance of such tools as facebook, twitter and their ilk. Not entirely unselfishly, of course, as I’d been trying to get him to participate so I could enjoy a glimpse of his inner monologue. The response I received was that his primary experience was that twitter was “inane, maliciously inane.” Now leaving aside my own feelings on such things acting as a tertiary layer of social interaction with a choice for level of engagement (“dude, you could have just called me.”). And also setting aside for the moment, the potential social relevancy of flash mobs, tweetups, spontaneous consumer, and political, organization I thought I’d play Devil’s advocate for a moment, Thus I bring you Twitter Cops

There really is a lot of crap out there. Of course, then again this is Doctorow’s Dandelion Thinking in full force. So I suppose that the same criteria my friend objected to makes it all the more vital that I keep this up. We can’t all be as interesting as @warrenellis after all.

I’m still not tweeting about food for a while though.

Found via Mashable

~Bonus, John Mayer reference!~

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