Comments on: Social Proprioception

By: Adam Crowe - links for 2007-09-18

Adam Crowe - links for 2007-09-18 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:34:59 +0000

[…] Disruptive Thoughts - Social Proprioception “I’ve found it an odd phenomenon to feel relationships strengthening by simply reading status updates… Across not only friends, but also acquaintances and relative strangers. And there’s value in that, for both sender and the receiver.” (tags: ambientintimacy intimacy extensionsofman immunesystem centralnervoussystem socialnetworking twitter facebook statusupdates proprioception senseextensions) […]

By: links for 2007-09-12 | mad dog in the fog

links for 2007-09-12 | mad dog in the fog — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:27:46 +0000

[…] Disruptive Thoughts » Social Proprioception “I’ve found it an odd phenomenon to feel relationships strengthening by simply reading status updates, constrained to 140 characters no less, over a period of time.” (tags: twitter socialnetworking) […]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:25:26 +0000

I wasn’t too surprised by Scoble’s response. He has over 5,000 followers on Twitter and I’m pretty low-profile so I didn’t really expect him to recognize me. If it had been someone who had a smaller number of followers I probably would have expected them to have a better idea of who I am.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:25:26 +0000

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:58:25 +0000

And here’s a question for you: when Scoble reacted that way… did your connection to him fade somewhat?

My assumption is that the realization that the connection was felt one way would have impacted (maybe only short-term) the strength of the connection you felt.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:55:45 +0000

Hi Mike, maybe the Giants fall schedule and the full inbox are correlated?
You’re right that the one-way relationship is… odd? creepy? Maybe just something new and different to deal with.

But individuals are going to have to get used to being in both situations. The more followers one has, the higher the number of people with a social proprioception for them, the greater the number of people who feel a stronger connection.

And if I’m following someone and start to feel the connection, absolutely I’m going to want to connect with them.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:58:25 +0000

And here’s a question for you: when Scoble reacted that way… did your connection to him fade somewhat? My assumption is that the realization that the connection was felt one way would have impacted (maybe only short-term) the strength of the connection you felt.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:55:45 +0000

Hi Mike, maybe the Giants fall schedule and the full inbox are correlated? You’re right that the one-way relationship is… odd? creepy? Maybe just something new and different to deal with. But individuals are going to have to get used to being in both situations. The more followers one has, the higher the number of people with a social proprioception for them, the greater the number of people who feel a stronger connection. And if I’m following someone and start to feel the connection, absolutely I’m going to want to connect with them.

By: Mike (the Giants fan with the dog and the full e-mail in-box)

Mike (the Giants fan with the dog and the full e-mail in-box) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:15:42 +0000

Great post! An interesting aspect of this phenomenon is when the virtual worlds and real worlds collide. I saw a number of people at the Office 2.0 conference last week that I follow on Twitter. Some of them also follow me but there were others where it was a one-way relationship (me following them). I was very tempted to go up to all of these people and introduce myself but that felt sort of creepy. For example, I saw Robert Scoble at one of the panels. As an ice breaker I told him that I saw his tweets about the iPhone price cut. After a brief chat he posted this on Twitter: “It’s very strange meeting fellow Twitterers at conferences. Several people said “read your Jobs letter” just now. Hi!” http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/251235572

By: Mike (the Giants fan

Mike (the Giants fan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:15:42 +0000