Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

This fascinating article from NYT about Facebook news feed and twitter/microblogging answers almost (if not all) of my questions: why people tweet?

The short answer is new technical term called ambient awareness.

I’ll try to describe a longer answer with my new & experimental writing technique: ‘ambient writing’ (a new catchphrase for ‘lazy copy & paste’). Anyway, with my own emphasis and quick thought.