[opendtv] Re: Why engineers don't like Twitter
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:31:29 -0500
John Shutt wrote:
> Engineers aren't by nature social creatures. At a social gathering, an
> engineer will stare at his shoes. An extroverted engineer will stare at your
> shoes.
:) !
That hardly describes all of us, though.
I think it's perhaps also age related. Teenagers and twenty-somethings have
always spent a LOT more time socializing with their peers on a constant basis
than older people do. In past years, it was on the phone constantly. Less nerdy
teenagers more so than the more nerdy ones.
But that phenomenon doesn't last forever. We have to see whether the twitter
generation will go on tweeting after they grow up. I'm fairly certain that they
won't to the same degree, even if the social networking tool becomes more
mainstream in the work place (like linked-in).
Corporations are also trying to make this work for them, creating internal
social networking walled gardens. I haven't noticed this being a success, but
maybe I just don't know. (I think it's a bit odd to expect an engineer to only
want to interact internal to the corporation. Doubtful that an engineer would
have come up with such a silly idea.)
Bert
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