Despite being a professional writer and editor, there is a limit to how much I want to communicate with others.

So, though maybe it’s really because I’m just too old, I don’t get Twitter.

Touted on its website as:

A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!

Ok, maybe I get it, maybe I don’t.

But, clearly, some do. There are thousands of people talking to friends and total strangers about items both strange and familiar. So, on second thought, that might actually have some value.

You want to establish a new pool of potential customers and you’ve selected a product or service to focus on. But creating an email list, then feeding it with valuable content to build relationships of trust, takes a year. Building a blogging audience can take months. Generating traffic to a new site is often quicker, but is that traffic worth anything? It depends.

So, here we have a messaging system that pretty much let’s anyone talk to anybody about anything. You can connect. You can share. You can make money… maybe.

Fad or new indispensable service? Social chaos or fertile meeting ground? Someone younger will have to tell me.