Met Some Twitter Buddies
The experience was weird. I am used to working with people for years and never meeting them in person. If I do, I already have the email and phone relationship as a foundation. With my Twitter buddies, the relationship is built on blog entries, one way communications; and tweets, brief quips that can be two way communications.
They say that words only communicate 7% of the message. As I had never even spoken to these folks, I was getting the additional 93% all at once. And it was quite an experience.
@kevinchu was a lot quieter than I imagined, but when he did say something, it was a gem, kind of like Silent Bob. @davetong was as I imagined, a garrulous and funny guy. @lskrocki was just as I imagined, too. I expect that if anyone witnessed @lskrocki and my lunch, they would describe it as jibber-jabber, jibber-jabber, cackle, cackle, cackle.
I have to wend my may to Las Vegas soon to meet @thinguy and @mrsthinguy.
Hello world!!!
Posted by zalupok on February 25, 2008 at 12:34 PM MST #
I worry that when I meet my online buddies in real life I wouldn't like them. Not you of course. But I know people who I don't like that much in real life but they're brilliant bloggers. So I worry that some of my favorite bloggers are actually not all that nice and I just don't know it, and I don't want to burst this bubble I have going.
I'm glad to know the ones you mentioned are cool. Now let me know what happens when you meet Thinguy. :)
Posted by melanie gao on February 25, 2008 at 07:38 PM MST #
I was worried about not liking them as well. But more so, I was worried that they would not like me. Maybe they imagined me smarter or funnier or taller than I actually am. I guess I will know when/if future attempts to meet are rebuffed. :)
Posted by Pam on February 26, 2008 at 08:57 AM MST #
Oh...You're short. No need to meet then.
Posted by Thin Guy on February 26, 2008 at 12:55 PM MST #