With the high profile departure from Twitter by Hugh Macleod recently, I was forced to re-evaluate my own participation in the ever more time-consuming digital dilemma that is the "connected world". How to manage our connectedness while still maintaining some degree of public / private life is becoming more difficult as our private lives spill ever more perilously close to the public domain – even if unintentional.

I came across this story this morning about a person-to-person messenger invented in 1935 and filed under "useless technology". In those days people who knew one another lived in close proximity and so this would make some sense. With globalisation, Twitter is just that. In fact this device could be seen as the predecessor to the Short-Message-Service (SMS) too.

Some bright people are just born at the wrong time and have to do with the technology available at the time. Sheezz!

Twitter public terminal in 1935.

PS. A great post here on 17 ways how to use Twitter