It’s Friday after a long week so here is a cartoon that struck me a funny, and come on we all need a laugh now and then:

As an avid twitter-er, I can relate to this cartoon. Now that we have Twitter, Facebook and a whole gaggle of applications at our fingertips, thoughts have been reduced to 140 characters and activities summed up by twitpics. Not that I think my followers are hanging on to every character I tweet, but it is fun and somewhat comforting to share in the interconnectivity of social networking.

We all remember the confusion and Armageddon when Twitter was down for a morning (yes JUST a morning and people freaked out- “but how will my followers know what I had for breakfast?”). If you don’t recall, Twitter was attacked (so dramatic) and the site was down- here is a NYT blog post about it. As much as I poke fun, I was one of those people feeling in the dark that morning. I was not wondering what @mikegross144 was doing at the moment though. I was missing my usual stream of RT-ed news articles, odd findings, area events and hilarious commentary. It is a living and personalized daily RSS feed of anything and everything from friends, icons, strangers and the lovable weirdos- and I think it is here to stay.

Oh and by the way- I had a muffin for breakfast.