your opening was a real stroke. made me think “children of tweetoholics anonymous” or “TAT: teens against tweeters”.

i understand both sides of it. i have mostly been outside of twitter for biased (ignorant) reasons. i am now on the inside for purposeful reasons. it was adolescent of me to dismiss it out of hand as “not so good”. …and still i feel adolescent as i learn my way with it.

I think I’d have a much easier time of convincing a teen to blog than to use Twitter.

I answer “what are you interested in?”

And, as they have for years, my parents have no interest in what I say. =)

I find Twitter a great place to share and find, but not to sustain.

Thanks Eline!

I like your idea of using phones for emergencies & keeping in touch w/ parents. There’s nothing wrong with learning to enjoy silence and analog conversations with real friends, eh?

They already have so many options they’re busy building cliques to narrow things down into manageable groups. (Sounds a bit like the adults with Tweetdeck, no?)

Haha! @ “logic is severely flawed.”

Isn’t that par for the course with most teens? If I remember correctly, (which I try not to do) I had some pretty flawed logic myself in those days. =)

Thanks Patrick!