Practice Management

There is probably nobody more astute as to tech than is Rick Georges of Future Lawyer, but what he basically says in a new post is that tech and time are not necessarily the same.  Good tech is suppose to save you time and be beneficial, and he does not see much of either of those traits in Twitter.

Following up on a post by Lawyerist, Rick Georges says in his post:

"I don't have enough time in the day to be a lawyer and a blogger and a dad and a husband and, well, you understand. Twittering is too much like stalking someone who wants to be stalked. If I want to know what you are doing every moment, I will marry you".

Nice.

I do not know if "twitters are twits", but I do see where with too many connects that following Twitter could become an obsession that are too much like following those bane reality shows on TV.  A small part of it might be beneficial but most of it is not.  It is the process of sharing and sorting through the ton of posts in an effort to separate the wheat from the chaff.  I am not sure I am prepared for it.

Last year I removed myself from most listservs because it just got impossible to follow them.  These were professional listservs in which important information is sometimes exchanged.  The problem was that one day I got to my office from Court and I had over 150 emails because of the listservs.  A few days later it was over 250.  Some were interesting and important.  Many were not.  Some were just lame.  There was also a lot of just wrong information floating around.  All of them took time.  All of that time added up to a lot of time.  Regardless, I found myself spending a half a day on this things, and I just could no longer afford the time to read and contribute to them any longer.

It seems to me that Twitter is nothing more than a large number of individual listservs.

I might give it a try because I do think social media is an imporant evolution.  I do not want to be too conservative and old school.  But, like Rick Georges and many others I have my doubts.

(Tech Reverend Rick Georges Pictured.  Art From The Tech Tiger)