Twitter staff don’t get high on their own supply

Twitter staff not taking own medicine, reports ReadWriteWeb

I wonder why?

Could it be that they’ve got better things to do? Like doing stuff in real life? Or planning what to do with all that lovely money they’ll make when someone eventually buys Twitter?

A post in ReadWriteWeb asks why Twitter staff seem to be using Twitter in a very different way from everyone else.

Something tells me that this won’t be a popular view, but I think that social media are inherently addictive in nature and deliberately so.  They’re designed to plug into the ego and to ‘fix’ how we feel about ourselves. Twitter is the new cigarette: once you started, you just can’t stop.  Sure you can.  Go on then.

‘Don’t get high on your own supply’ was the watchword of the smart drug dealer of the 1980s. Watch ‘Goodfellas’ and you’ll understand why.

The mark of a true dealer is he that gives enough away for free to build a customer base that can’t do without his stuff – yet stays in control by not using himself.  The mark of a true addict is how ferociously he/she fights to defend his need to use what the dealer supplies.

What do you think?

Read the ReadWriteWeb post here.