With the attention the micro-blogging tool has been getting the past few weeks, I was actually on the brink of letting the the thing go. The novelty behind gaining a “follower” has started to lose its luster. You don’t know if the person who added you wants to know what you think, or just added you in hopes of getting a reciprocated “follow”.

Unfortunately, I cannot let go of these micro-blogging platforms under my profile on the right. Not because I’m an Internet marketer (and is therefore bound by the unwritten rules of Internet Marketing), but because these tools are too valuable from a reputation building standpoint. How will I tell everyone who isn’t subscribed to my RSS feed that I just posted another blog post? How do I tell a bunch of people with no access to a computer what I’m thinking? A mass text to those people? That my friends is old school. As much as I admire this guy right here, I’m sorry to say he just has no idea what he’s talking about.

I Twit or Plurk, or blog, so I can share what I know — also in hopes the few people who “follow” me can find value in what I have to say. I also follow others out there because I know I’m not the only one with something to share. For ordinary guys like me, it doesn’t matter how fast you can get to a million.