I love Twitter, but sometimes; ok a lot of times, I forget that just because I know about Twitter and actively use it, doesn’t mean that everyone I know is doing the same thing. I forget that not all of my friends and family are total web geeks such as myself. So when people ask me “why I use Twitter” and tell me how pointless it seems, I become stunned and am all of a sudden baffled by the fact that they are truly unfamiliar with Twitter and a lot of other social type sites and apps I use.

Thanks to Lee Lefever who created a video titled ‘Twitter in Plain English’, I can now direct my friends and family who question Twitter to this video.

As a matter of fact, why don’t I just add it here for their convenience.

Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

I think twitter is a great tool. It isn’t all business for me. It’s a social and information sharing thing for me. What do I mean by that? I’ll gladly explain. It is social because sometimes I treat it like my water cooler moment. It also allows me to not only connect with existing friends on twitter (although none of my friends were on twitter when I first joined in November of 2006), but also allows me to meet other people. For some reason; people who are unattached to social web activity, think that services like twitter and facebook (and so on and so on) replace real life interaction, but they don’t. I think it does just the opposite. I think these types of services enhance and increase people getting together in the physical world. For instance, through twitter I have met a ton of folks from all over the place. I reside in Northern Virginia, but when I go to Atlanta this summer to visit a friend, I know there are about 10 people on twitter that I follow (and vice versa) whom I can meet up with to have cup of coffee. When I go to Nashville for my family reunion this July, I know 5 people on twitter I can hook up and chew the fat with (you get the drift). Am I saying these people on twitter are my best friends; of course not, but not everyone is your best friend anyway. However, they are people whom I share a common interest and what’s wrong with that? There’s no harm in expanding your social network of peers and friends.

Twitter is also a most excellent place to share and receive information. People on twitter share links to articles, other blogs and websites, share invites to new web apps and sites, details on various conferences and expos, etc, etc. I love information sharing as most other people on twitter do as well.

So, in a nutshell, I love twitter. Before assuming it’s ridiculous, give it try; you just might like it……