I am removing the Twitter application from my Facebook account.  I am doing this because I spent about four hours with some of the folks I came of age with at my high school class reunion.  It was good time.  And I learned a few things.  Most of these folks are not in the world of tech so they have a different perspective about social networks.  A perspective more like mainstream America.

It is nothing new to me, but people that are on Facebook and not on Twitter do not understand the machine language to operate Twitter.  Too many @ replies and shortened URLs take a Facebook user out of context.  It's confusing to them.  Why bring confusion to communications?

Something that I did not realize before, but makes total sense now, is my twitter comment stream is heavily populated with information about my work.  Too much information about my work for mostly non-professional contacts and friends.  To them it is comment pollution.  Who wants that?

Perhaps the most essential thing that I learned was that I have fallen completely out of touch with some people that were important to me.  It saddens me.  I am going to spend a little effort to change that.  Maybe more than a little.  You won't be reading much about that here, it's an offline personal endeavor. 

And you also won't be reading my Twitter updates on Facebook any longer.