Creeva’s World 2.0

Pic­ture from here

Yes­ter­day I saw and arti­cle about Barack Obama being the new num­ber one per­son on Twit­ter.  If you don’t know what Twit­ter is, I don’t know how you man­aged to find my blog, but beyond that it’s a micro blog­ging site.  I’ve been on twit­ter for awhile now and I enjoy it, dif­fer­ent peo­ple get dif­fer­ent things out of it.

I was think­ing about it this morn­ing though, at what point is there going to be repur­cus­sions from social net­work friends and fol­low­ers.  I’m not talk­ing about a sen­a­tor tweet­ing “Out with the mis­tress for a hot time” and the press find­ing out about it (though in twenty years I can see that escap­ing the “Face­book Con­gress Edi­tion” web­site.   I’m tlak­ing about Barack get­ting num­ber one.   I know that NASA has mul­ti­ple twit­ter accounts, do they fol­low Barack?  If they don’t what if Barack is really into Twit­ter, is he going to remem­ber that NASA didn’t fol­low him and adjust their bud­get accord­ingly.  What about the Burea of Indian Affairs, are they his Face­book friend?

While this is all seems kind of silly now, it won’t nec­es­sar­ily be so in the future.   In twenty to thirty years the kids and teenagers of today that live and die by their online social net­works are going ot be run­ning for office.   Will their atten­tion span be as short?  Will they be ones that think social net­works are social net­work­ing in gen­eral is so impor­tant that they will remem­ber who their friends were before their the elec­tion and act accord­ingly.   This is just pon­der­ing, but I am curious