Disruptive Thoughts - Latest Comments in Social Proprioception

Re: Social Proprioception

Mike — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:25:26 -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.

Re: Social Proprioception

Mike — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:25:26 -0000

Re: Social Proprioception

Fraser — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:58:25 -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.

Re: Social Proprioception

Fraser — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:55:45 -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.

Re: Social Proprioception

Fraser — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:58:25 -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.

Re: Social Proprioception

Fraser — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:55:45 -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.

Re: Social Proprioception

Mike (the Giants fan with the — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:15:42 -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/Scobleiz...

Re: Social Proprioception

Mike (the Giants fan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:15:42 -0000