Showing posts with label tweeter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tweeter. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Follow the Leader...

Remember the good ol' days when adults would ask us, "If Tommy jumped off a cliff, would you follow him?" After we'd been caught doing something insane, and blamed it on someone else.
I can't even recall how many times I heard a phrase like, "be a leader, not a follower."
But now, with the progress of social networks and websites like Twitter, children and adults across the country are being encouraged and rewarded for being a "follower."
"Follow me on Twitter" is now a phrase that you see on every website, television commercial, newscast- hell, even my dentist wants me to "follow" him! Don't get me wrong, I'm guilty of it too!
I just had to stop and think about it for a moment today- The only place that following people is considered "cool" is on Twitter, and with roughly fifty million tweets per day, I'm wondering, where are all the leaders?