Has anyone out there ever been in a real snoozer of a meeting and passed a note to your colleague saying something like:

The fun of passing notes in the real world is that it is private and the notes are temporary. I was in a meeting today and watched one person write something on the paper in front of them, point it out to the person sitting next to them, and then exchange a chuckle before scratching it out. One second the note was there, the next second it was gone. That is not the case when your note-passing gets done on Twitter.

The other day, one of my supervisors friended me on Facebook. My tweets are synced with Facebook with the twitter application, so my status automatically updates on Facebook when I write anything on Twitter. So there I was, sitting in a rather dull meeting, reaching for my phone to tweet a plea for empathy from my friends when I realized that my network of empathizers had been infiltrated! If I passed my virtual note, I stood to be busted by the boss! So I took a different approach and wrote this:

My supervisor never commented, and I have no idea if they ever saw the tweet/update. I just couldn’t leave well enough alone; writing that tweet I felt like a curious kid poking a bear with a stick to see if it is hibernating or not. Disclaimer: I like my supervisor and I have no problem with a boring meeting or two, so if you see this now please don’t be upset! This was an experiment, an experiment that I never would have put on the PLA Blog, if I hadn’t needed an excuse to post this hilarious video called “My Social Graph is Getting Weird” by Jeremy Fuksa (found via the Socialized blog). Watch it for a good laugh, but beware that the guy curses a few times in his presentation- so if that offends you then you might not want to click ‘play’. My social graph IS weird! Yours?

My Social Graph Is Getting Weird from Jeremy Fuksa:Creative Generalist on Vimeo.