The Sikh Geek

Having used Twitter for a while, it has been a mixed bag of experiences of making some real connections and getting some great ideas and insights. However, the funniest thing is following those who are apparently the "A" listers or "B" listers or whatever they call themselves. They are those who have achieved minor celebrity status among Geekdom and so therefore walk and think at a different level to us mere mortals, or so you would think? There was a great episode this weekend of what can be described as "hand bags" at fifty paces from two such protagonists. It was like watching kids fight in a school playground, only the kids would’ve had more dignity. I don’t know, maybe it was fuelled by too much testosterone and a modern day version of whipping out your manhood and seeing which is bigger. And these are the people that we’re supposed to look up to that PR people flock to impress!

Then there are those who try and give mind mending, deep meaningful analysis of the world. These are people who eat the best food, read the best books, listen to the finest and widest selection of music, who know all the people in the big bad Social Networking stratosphere.

Me, I watch the Soaps like Coronation Street, Eastenders, Big Brother, Football, hardly ever listen to music or read books (now), take any exercise (now) and spend far too much time stuck to my laptop into the wee small hours of the morning and trying to stop my kids from fighting and killing each other.

I’m beginning to believe that certain people on Twitter aren’t real people because they are the best dads to their sons, wonderful husbands and probably the best lovers as well.

The two "real" people for me on Twitter are Vlad because he hurls expletives at me and thought provoking stuff at the same time, challenges me and engages in a conversation. The other person is Lawrence Liu, Senior Product Manager and Community Lead for Sharepoint Products and Technologies, because he’s got balls, takes no crap and is willing to engage in a conversation and doesn’t take himself too seriously.