This past week, hours after I posted my Thursday article here at Eventualism, Twitter went down. Not for a moment. It went down like a sack of potatoes that was just punched by the best fighter of the modern era – James Douglas. And it didn’t get up for quite some time.
It wasn’t alone. Facebook fell on its face, LiveJournal went dead and I’m pretty sure Pownce disappeared, too (so hard hit that it was sent back in time to December of 2008 to be shut down)! So instead of users going off the grid, the grid just went…off. I’m all for taking eventual breaks from the social networking agenda we all have as EffTDers (as in belong to every site possible and only when you’re drained do you take the eventual recharge), but being forced to do so in another matter entirely. So much so that I use an entirely different manner to describe it.
Now the big question here is what did I do while Twitter was in twouble, LiveJournal had gone to tape and Facebook was like Mel Gibson in that movie where he had no face. Well, I’ll tell you…
I went out with some friends and had some drinks.
I put the “soc” back in “social.” We toasted each other with cheers such as “Sociable” and “Social Mention” and “Scoble.” We talked face to face. We engaged in dialogue that was longer than 140 characters. I have to tell you, my dear disciples, it felt…weird.
Too weird.
On that note, I implore social networking sites to take better care of themselves. Digest the right content – maybe cut out of some of the spam, which is never good for you – and make sure this never happens again. I hope you learned your lesson. No one from Georgia should ever be able to mess you up like that again. Unless it’s those blasted Duke boys. The good ones, not Coy and Vance.
Let me tell you that I don’t want to have to go through that again.
