I like Twitter.

There. I like it. I admit it. It's a weird little universe. At first I thought it was completely useless because I was only following three people (in Twitter world "follow" essentially means "friend") and I had nothing to add to the conversation. It's like jumping into a chat room. You feel like an idiot just twittering "Candice is tired" or "Candice is going to work". My day is pretty boring, so my status updates were also pretty boring.

Then I discovered Twitter's usefulness as essentially a message board. I starting responding to my friends, then added some new friends, including a few of my favorite comedians. It's interesting because the celebrities on there post what they are working on. My friends and I carry on several simultaneous "conversations" - all in 140 characters or less.

I think what I like best about Twitter is that I still only have like five friends (including my celebrity "friends") who twitter on a regular basis, making it a very effective means of communication. I don't have a phone with a data plan and can't access social networking sites at work, so if I had more Twitter friends I'd just be overwhelmed by the volume of tweets going back and forth.

So there. I'm a convert. It certainly doesn't replace Facebook, but is actually much more fun. Now all I need is an iphone.