So I joined Twitter this afternoon, after a truly enormous (but not unprecedented -- I probably advocated in favor of CDs and Internet Explorer too) amount of hemming and hawing. The breakdown is most likely precipitated by having to defend holding out an average of once a week, as often as not to the same handful of people, while simultaneously becoming aware that the explanations sounded flimsy even to my own ears.

But the truly disturbing thing was that, upon loading my gmail contacts, a bunch of people I know pretty well had quietly joined. Of course the people I knew who talked about Twitter and worked at Google had accounts, but it turns out lots of other people did too. Like my best friend's mom.

Not only was I dragging my heels and a luddite and totally passe. But I was the only one.

Of course, given this realization, I've chosen to blog about it. Instead of, you know, tweeting.