The backlash is here. Compared to many I’m a late joiner of Twitter, so I could easily be lumped into the unwashed mass of people that pushed Twitter from “cool” to the “oh shit my grandma is on here” category. I don’t think it’s going anywhere, and I imagine that in a few years we’ll reminisce about the olden days of Twitter the way we do about once really cool things like email or newsgroups. Or chat for that matter.*
Anyway, I’ll probably talk shit about Twitter for awhile, mostly because everyone else is. It’s only appropriate given that bandwagon hopping turned it uncool in the first place. After that it’ll be integrated into everything and I won’t even think about it. What really worries me is what happens when all of my online and offline identities somehow merge into one.** Maybe that’s the next killer app, something to manage all of our ridiculous online personae.
* There was a period of time during which I printed and saved all of my chats. This might make an interesting ongoing feature, Banal Chats from my Past.
** People talk about the Singularity, maybe that’s what will happen. Identity boundaries cease to exist. I implode under the gravity of my cognitive dissonance.