Then & Now: Deja Vu

Then: "What is a blog?"

Now: "What is Twitter?"

Then: "Why would anyone want to read your blog?"

Now: "Why would anyone want to read your Twitter updates?"

Then: "You really think people care enough about your opinion that you should have a blog?"

Now: "You really think people want to read about what you are doing all the time?"

Then: "Blogging is for egomaniacal exhibitionists."

Now: "Twitter is for egomaniacal exhibitionists."

Then: "Blog is a funny word. It sounds stupid."

Now: "Twitter is a funny word. It sounds stupid."

Then: "Blogging will be the death of legitimate, long-form journalism."

Now: "Twitter will be the death of legitimate, long-form blogging."

Then: "I would never have a blog."

Now: "I would never have a Twitter."

Then: "Heyyy, I finally got myself a blog, check it out!"

Now: "FormerSkeptic is now following you on Twitter."

Comments

[Rob Robinson]

LOL. That's great, Brittney.

[Jackson Miller]

That is great. You left one out though (between "I would never" and "I now have a":

Then: I read about that on your blog.

Now: I saw that on your twitter thing.

[Malia]

So true. So very true, says former skeptic of both blogs and Twitter!

[The Internet]

@brittneyg WHORE

[brittney]

Yes, Jackson, you are right. Oversight on my part.

[The Internet]

HEY HANSON I CAN TAKE YOU

COME ON

I'M READY TA OPEN UP A WHOLE T3 OF DIGITAL WHUPASS

[LeBlanc]

Umm, yeah...I still don't get Twitter. Am I behind or something?

[Ian Wilker]

Guffaw. Good bromide for the irritation I feel at getting the same kind of "are you an alien?" looks from colleagues and friends now re Twitter that I got a few years back re blogs.

@iwilker

[Marshall Kirkpatrick]

Awesome possum! I came here via Beth Kanter, who's told me stories about hearing "why would I want e-mail, I've got a fax machine!"

[May]

totally fabulous :D

thanks for the laugh!

[David, Chandler, AZ]

LOL, I can't wait to twitter this

[Lori Luza]

soooo true! Thanks for the laugh.

[DJK]

I just twittered this.... http://twitter.com/egnilk66

[gesa]

front page of favotter!

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[Holiday Grinch]

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