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It's Come To This

By Nathan Gilliatt on July 1, 2010 11:12 PM | 4 Comments

hamsterwheel.jpgI had a long lunch today with an old friend who's active in the social media space, and I mentioned that to me, Twitter is now the water cooler. His first reaction was that I was using some new social media site called Water Cooler (Watercoolr?), and he had somehow missed it.

Not quite what I meant. Is social media buzz turning us all into hamsters, trying to keep up with the wheel?

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