Is Twitter a Waste of Time?
Dentistry, InternetOsphere May 3rd, 2008
I think that anything and everything that we do in life can be seen as a waste of time depending on the perspective. Isn’t art, however, all about perspective? And isn’t life all about the art of living and interacting with others?
Twitter doesn’t have to be about broadcasting your daily activities to the universe pointlessly. It doesn’t have to be about meeting strangers in a corner of the internet for mindless chatter. Instead it can be used for a greater good.
I am actively using Twitter to try to form an online community of people in the dental field who will be able to interact in real-time. Possibilities formed by this sort of interaction are endless, geeky, and a subject of future posts.
Here’s one Twitter experience that will give you a hint of the usefulness of real-time online social media and the relevance it might have to our daily practise of dentistry. The players are I and some buddies that I made on Twitter. These buddies are dentists and a non-dentist — a patient. The director of the production is Twitter itself. The Washington Post blogged about our shenanigans here.
Microblogging on Twitter will never replace continuing education courses or blogs themselves as a vehicle for detailed dental information. The art of Twitter, though, is perspective.
Twitter will give patients a view into a dentist’s day and it will give dentists a view into one another’s practice. Questions will be asked, opinions will be given, and through all of this new perspectives of dentistry will be developed by patients and people within the dental field together.
Join me on Twitter if you’re interested. Check out my follow list for other dental professionals and add them too. Let’s get talking:
May 4th, 2008 at 9:44 am
The Jeff Gates story is a unique and refreshing one about Twitter. Thanks for pointing it out. I started to get tired of people tweeting about Microsoft/Yahoo merger, or blogging tips.
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May 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
ok, ok, you’ve convinced me, lol
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May 4th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Why does there always have to be a point to what I do anyway? Can’t I just do something because I’m doing it?
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May 5th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Rudy: So what *do* you think about the Microsoft/Yahoo thing?
Laney: Will chat with you on there…
fragile: Having a point to things that I do makes the experience more meaningful for me. It makes it bloggable, and it keeps Calculus off my back that I’m wasting time that I should be spending with her.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
lol fine… just as long as it doesn’t apply to me and I can continue to do random things that don’t have any real purpose.
FYI: My two security words for this comment are starved and punched – that would be cruel punishment to whoever that happens to.
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May 8th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
hye..nice blog..
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take care..
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Your Fitness Solution.
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May 8th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Fitness: Thanks for stopping by.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I have visions of you with one hand in a patient’s mouth and the other on the keyboard. And, god help the patient, but in some visions the hand in the mouth is holding a drill.
Please tell me that real-time twittering for an endodontist looks nothing like that.
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May 8th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
haley: Nothing like that. I need both hands to type. My assistant has the drill in the patient’s mouth while I do that.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Peri… stop tweeting and post something will you?
Please?
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May 9th, 2008 at 6:03 am
fragile: While I think of a new post, check out some waltzing at the pro am (not us).
May 10th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Ok I watched the video… now where’s your post. lol j/k it was a great video! Wish I could’ve seen you guys in action!
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May 10th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Ok, I’m going to try to put the next post up tonight just 4 u. Hope you’ll enjoy it.