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Bewildered by the appeal of Twitter? 

Don’t quite get why someone might be interested in what you’re doing right now ?

Can’t understand the appeal of crafting together 140 characters–and not a single digit more–to communicate?

Dom Nozzi can.  He’s executive director of Walkable Streets, an organization promoting pedestrian-friendly community design.  In a Letter to the Editor from the Washington Post, he offered a fascinating explanation.  Excerpts from his letter follow:

“Why [do} so many people these days engage in the banal minutiae of social network chitchat such as we find on Twitter and Facebook?”

It’s quite simple, really.

A growing number of us are doing so because we have become a nation of loners.  Our bonds of friendship, neighborhood, family and community have been torn asunder by our sprawling, car-based, sterile, suburban lifestyles.  Living without such bonds is incompatible with our sociable, convivial genetic heritage.

Twitter and Facebook allow us to engage in virtual, cyber-based chatting over the picket fence.  They fulfill a  deep-seated human need — albeit in a less-than-ideal way.”

What do you think?  At a time of great economic turmoil, is social networking exactly what we need most–an opportunity to communicate with our communities? 

Is Dom Nozzi right about our need to be connected?

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