I’ve heard it can be very useful for announcements like a huge party, I know my brother uses it since he’s a musician and its great for getting the word out to mbumes of people you don’t know, but I suppose given that I am of the opinion that a handful close friends is all I need rather than 70 people I “know” it’s obviously going to be of no use to me. Anyone I want to talk to or want to have know about anything going on in my life, I talk to. I have conversations with them and any even that I am planning in the next month they will hear about since I will talk to them in the next month because I likely have other things to say than “Hey wanna go to a kegger I’m planning?”

As far as the trivial is concerned, only a few people I know might care about what music I listen to, and once again I will talk to them about it. I will IM, send samples, link to music vids etc. And I say that those apps are useless as someone who loves stats and numbers.

It seems sort of a last ditch effort to keep connected in a world where it’s so easy to drift away from everyone and isolate yourself, but that connection seems to tenuous and irrelevant, not any sort of actual connection.