Yesterday I mentioned to my partner I intend to use Google Calendar on my mobile phone. I also stated she’d be able to track any updates in my schedule fairly easily. For example, suppose I made an appointment during the day, and input that into Google, she would be in a position to quickly cross-check my schedule should something come on the horizon that she needed to book herself.
I thought this was pretty neat, hmm but I was wrong. Apparently it would be a little redundant due to the amount of tweeting I do concerning my plans etc. She said “I only need to see what your are tweeting and I’d know”.
This made me think hard about what I actually do indeed tweet, and this has got me wondering about my tweet use.
Fact: I am using far less text messages a month than I have in the passed to send updates to friends. I recall in the late 90s I used to get through hundreds and hundreds a month, now I get through maybe 10 a week tops.
Fact: I do indeed tweet rather openly about my whereabouts and “some” of my plans.
Fact: I seem to be actively in communication with my social graph between the hours of 8am and 8pm GMT.
Fact: Not everyone in my social graph follows me on Twitter. However, most of the others use Facebook (my tweets get shown in my FB status). The ones whom are not in either system get an email, or lastly a text message, or private IM.
Oh and of course I just call people a lot more these days too.
There we go, my communication methods have change considerably, and become almost free.
What about yours?