Brian Shaler Is Not Cool
Does the number of friends you have on a social network (such as Twitter in this example) have an effect on how ‘cool’ you are? Is ‘how cool you are’ related to ‘how cool you think you are’?
A typical reaction to my recent growth in Twitter friends is that I am trying to be ‘cool’ by having a lot of friends. This is something that comes up on any social network, most commonly on Myspace, and it got me to consider the relationship between how ‘cool’ undiscriminating friend-adders may feel, and how ‘cool’ they actually are.
It turns out that there is a serious discrepancy between the two. It is also apparent that my Twitter experiment may end up having a negative impact on my ‘actual coolness’.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
I saw your tweet and stopped by. Been reading ever since. Funny stuff man… you can do my charts any day!
June 21st, 2007 at 9:16 am
So since I have 2 Twitter friends, things aren’t looking too good for me, huh?
June 21st, 2007 at 9:29 am
[…] me instantly in love with him. For fun, he makes graphs to show relationships of random things and this one, I feel, sums up my whole online life. Replace “Twitter” with “Myspace”, […]
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Kia,
I have 1 Twitter friend–and it’s Twitter ;-(
I guess I’ll add Brian to get up to your lofty level.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
tell them “you’re just jealous because you wish you had a social sixth sense
June 26th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Dude, I have 2 twitter friends…my sister and Brian Shaler.
Me=King of Cool
July 1st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
So “it’s an experiment” isn’t your bullshit excuse?
July 1st, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Well.. It is an experiment.. but that’s not an excuse. After all, I wrote the title “Brian Shaler Is Not Cool” and I wouldn’t lie to you, would I?