[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'217516\' date=\'Jun 8 2009, 11:51 AM\']Yeah, I'm with you on this one. TIME Magazine has a cover story about how it's going to change our lives, but every other story is about how it's used to learn what a celebrity had for lunch. As modes of communication go, I see this as being our decade's version of the CB radio.[/quote]
Exactly. Ultimately, it's a tool.
Unfortunately, so are most of the people who use it.
I've seen it used for two purposes, mostly: telling people what they had for breakfast, or deluding themselves that just because they follow a "famous" user, that they are now best buds with that user because they can send them an at-message.
It *could* be a useful tool, but then all of the "useful" uses I can think of for it have already been implemented elsewhere.