Optional, 6 months ago @clive, I ran across your quote in Taylor Lorenz' book Extremely Online. Are you still captivated by your friends' sandwich choices or has the spell worn off? ... thousands of dots making a pointillis painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friends would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating." One Twitter user described the experience as" a type of E.S.P."—something that we wouldn't have known was possible, let alone desirable, before the dawn of Twitter. "It's like I can distantly read everyone's mind," the user told Thompson. "I love that. I feel like I'm getting to something raw about my friends. It's like I've got this heads-up display for them."
@clive, I ran across your quote in Taylor Lorenz' book Extremely Online. Are you still captivated by your friends' sandwich choices or has the spell worn off?
... thousands of dots making a pointillis painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friends would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating." One Twitter user described the experience as" a type of E.S.P."—something that we wouldn't have known was possible, let alone desirable, before the dawn of Twitter. "It's like I can distantly read everyone's mind," the user told Thompson. "I love that. I feel like I'm getting to something raw about my friends. It's like I've got this heads-up display for them."