It’s amazing that people use to complain about the drawback of email not being in realtime and how it could “stiffle” a conversation.

Then somebody invented instant messaging, and realtime communication was born. Alas, immediate communication with your subject was possible and information could be conducted at the speed of light.

Then Twitter came along… some people use it for “real-time” communication, but if you think about it, it’s almost the opposite of IM’s. Sometimes slow, you don’t always receive an immediate response, sometimes your message gets lost in the flow of things, and you can never tell the other person’s status.

Discuss here. 

John Fox : Starting at the age of 6, John was always fascinated with computers. His first machine, an IBM PCjr, had him hooked and from that sparked a love affair with technology. Creating webpages at the age of 12 and the advent of social media that came about in his 20's, he started his own media company, New Media Designs, in 2009. Due to the success of IndyGeek.net, New Media Designs' flagship product, the NMD brand was stopped in April 2010 and IndyGeek became the name of the company founded by Fox, his wife Esther and Alex Conner.