2 Sides of Everything

Many things in the world have 2 sides to them.  We usually call them pros/cons, advantages/disadvantages, etc.  Often times we put things on 1 side of the scale instead of giving them a fair score.


I used to look at Twitter as a complete waste of internet space, and people abuse it by over-tweeting and tweet to the world everything they are doing at every minute.  Garbage in, garbage out, sooner or later my Twitter page will be flooded with useless status messages and becomes a complete waste of time reading through them..

Well, there ARE better uses for Twitter.  After talking to a few people, I realized that Twitter might be a good channel for getting the news and headlines that you are interested in.  Twitter platform allows all the "news" tweets to be presented in a clean layout, and I can simply glance through to get my 5-minutes morning news feed.  I have yet to compare the versatility of using Twitter versus what I am doing right now using Google Reader, so I will need to try it out and see.  But this definitely changed my view on Twitter in general.