Sure, social networking in the same tab as my email is convenient. The ability to follow or be followed by every person I’ve ever emailed, including ex-bosses and the stalker guy from high school, is a mixed blessing. Being able to aggregate sites (Blogger, YouTube, Google Reader, Flickr, and yes, Twitter) made me pause: I was already sharing what I was thinking in too many places, with too many people. How many interesting nuggets of information could I disperse in a single day?
One’s posts aren’t limited to Twitter’s 140 characters. One can post pictures and video too. Another mixed blessing: Do I want unrestricted rambling in my inbox every day? Then there’s Google’s promise that I can tag posts with geo-location. Which could make it easier to find user reviews on, say, a restaurant I’m going to.
(This story appears in the 05 March, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)