Twitter is like McDonald’s or KFC’s junk food. We know it is bad, but fall for it for the sake of taste and packaging. From being a voracious tweep, I have cut down drastically over the last few months for two reasons – work deadlines and Twitter boredom. Like my friend on Twitter says, leave it or take it, you can’t stay out of Twitter for long. He is right 100 percent. Twitter is a cool microblogging tool which allows you to connect to people all across the world – from celebs to stars to college students to nuts. You make new friends or piss off existing friends – the options are endless and mind-blowing. Depends on what kind of stuff you tweet. Twitter is what you want it to be.

One more disadvantage of tweeting is that your blogging takes a hit. This blog is the finest example of Twitter impact. From 20-25 posts a month, I can barely manage to post once a week. There is no shortage of stuff to post; it is just the laziness which creeps in when you can express the same thoughts in 140 characters over Twitter. Muscat had a lot of cool bloggers who lost their way, someway or the other, and Twitter has a major role to play in this downward spiral.

Thanks to social media/new media, I don’t mail my ‘real friends’ anymore. They track me over Facebook, blog and Twitter. Such is life in 2010.