I’d like to think that I’m ‘with it’. I’m on the Facebook and the Twitter, and am fairly active in both – I ‘get’ ’social media’, that’s what I’m saying. However, with that said, I really think I finally feel like an old codger that just doesn’t understand the crazy kids and their newfangled internets.
What has caused this epic change? Simply put, a new iPhone app called Birdhouse.
Now don’t get all ahead of yourselves here – it looks like a beautifully done app, and the website design, intro video and everything in between look to be fantastically done. I don’t want to take that away from the folks who put this together (doesn’t hurt that Sandwich Dynamics is an amazing company name, either).
The app simply exists to let you quickly enter in ‘tweet’ ideas, slowly refine them, rate them accordingly, then finally publish the great ones, while still refining the rest.
It’s just that I feel like they’re solving a problem that didn’t really exist until they showed up with the app. Again, maybe I’m an oldster now and I just don’t ‘get’ it. Maybe true genius is doing exactly what I feel they did — creating a solution to an imaginary problem. I may or may not end up giving it a shot, as maybe I really am missing out on something. I just can’t shake that feeling that it makes no sense to me. Regardless of how I feel, you should check it out for yourself — the intro video is quite good.
Anyway, stay off my lawn.
