I’ve been avoiding dealing with my Twitter account for the past couple of months.  The daily intrusions of life in 2010, coupled with an endless kitchen renovation and having an 18 year old daughter in Rome kept me from giving anything more than a cursory glance to the flood of information streaming down my Tweetdeck .  Well, it’s amazing what a functional refrigerator can do for one’s head (not to mention stomach), and now that the offspring is relatively safely ensconced back in Liberalartsville, I decided to take a peek under the Tweethood and see what was going on in there .  Interestingly enough, I found myself following a lot of people for no apparent reason.  Was I suffering from some kind of follow-mania brought on by an excessive need to click buttons?  Not really sure, but I got out the digital pruning shears and started to cut myself free from about 100 perfectly nice people. To what end? I suppose firstly to try and get some kind of control and clarity over the overwhelming stream of info, and secondly to attempt to find some deeper connection to the people with whom I had connected, whether personal or professional. It occurs to me that there are hundreds of people with whom I could probably develop interesting relationships. But how to find the few that might be TRULY mutually beneficial, for instance a producer of some media property in need of music, a young composer looking for guidance, or prospective fans of my recorded music is not as clear cut as it might seem.  My current takeaway is that there are no easily defined solutions to any of this Social Media Engineering save for trying to not being an online ass. In my own way, I’m trying to reach out across the digital divide and connect with the great unknown.

It’s a New Tribalism out there and I’m looking for my people.

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