STL Social Media Guy

I met an online acquaintance for a glass of beer Sunday night. He was in town on his way to a business trip. Also met a colleague from my employer. The arrangements for this meet-up were made exclusively via a conversation over several days on Twitter.

The meet-up started with a tweet by Ryan Sholin on April 22. It ended with another confirming the location on Sunday morning — and a glass of Harp at the Dubliner.

A week earlier, I met a local blogger for lunch to talk about a project idea. Again, those arrangements were made largely via a Twitter discussion.

I’m fascinated by the phenomenon. I’d never met Ryan before in my life and we converged on a place at a time because we both frequent Twitter — and kept up enough with our twitterfeeds to make the arrangements come together.

I’ve always marveled, too, at how my daughter can make arrangements with a bunch of friends through Facebook — often with virtually no confirmation that the message was received on the other end.

I’m not sure I could go as far as she and her friends do. I love the myriad ways of keeping in touch, but I fear I’m a little too anal to make complicated plans without a concrete confirmation. I suppose that’s how all these tools hook us, eh? We get started, then realize we can’t stray too far or we might miss a critical blog post, an urgent tweet, a poignant note on my news feed.

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