The "Me Me Me" Factor!

For the past few days, I have been unavoidably absent from my blog and twitter. I did a catch-up earlier today by looking at my twitter stream and I uncovered the dying embers of several strands of a heated and fascinating debate involving the role of social MEdia in our lives. In particular, the role of twitter. Wow! I thought to myself. How could I possibly have missed all this in a nanosecond? In a few minutes of surfing and then delving deeper and deeper into the very heart of the tweets and links to blogs, this is what I uncovered. What struck me included the following observations:

• the role of twitter as a very powerful influential tool
• a power struggle emerging between digital natives and digital immigrants
  
• a heated debate about "twitiquette"
• the merits of retweeting thank you
• the unknown fast-flowing direction that twitter is taking
• the role of "give and take" within twitter
• the fast evolving twists and turns of real-time debating
• the concerns expressed about the public "web"persona versus the "private" persona
• a public arena which was almost like a lion's den!
• the knowledge that what is said online should be carefully reflected upon
  

I tamely chose not to enter something which was too hot to handle at this time of the day.

The Twitter Whale
How do you feel when you see the image above? Do you just say "Oh well, no problem! I'll try again later" or do you get a sinking feeling that you are missing out on the party?
I'd be interested to hear your views.