The CEO of Zappos blogged recently on how twitter can make you happy. What followed was a rather heated discussion with two friends of mine (Hi @andrew, Hi @marc), neither of which are twitterers.
Marc offered this graph to prove that twitter does not make you (in this case me) happy.
Whilst I disagree (and would probably just replace the happy axis with a "busy" axis) it still amused me.
For the record, I quite enjoy twitter and it can make me happy. It's the most serendipitous part of my day normally. I'm not entirely sure I want to dredge up the rest of the argument.
1. Andrew
For all your regular readers, the argument I made was (in summary) that interacting with others makes people happy, not specifically the use of Twitter. The Zappo CEO may be trying to make this point, but it isn’t what he wrote.
2. Danzor
That’s an awesome graph. I must say, if you browse your twitter feed at least 80% of them are complaints of some kind.
3. Adrian
@danzor and also apparently people back from a really awesome run
4. Marc
Wait! You want to replace happy with busy on the y axis?
So when you’re getting “busy” with Maria you twitter more? Man alive. Although the distraction does add valuable seconds.
5. Andrew
Danzor -> problem shared is a problem halved, so perhaps the act of Twittering releases stress and the result is an increase in happiness.