YOKO ONO is following me on Twitter. It is surreal, as well as fun and wonderful, and could only happen in the blossoming world of social networking.

Some of you younger folks may say: Who is Yoko Ono? Some of you older folks may say: What is Twitter? My best answer is that they are symbols of our times.

At first, it seemed that computers and the web were primarily valuable in regards to the information that could be found and gathered—a more masculine task, as traits go. But through social networking and blogging it seems we have added the feminine qualities to the world wide web—the desire to connect and create relationships with family, friends, colleagues, people you admire, or even with total strangers.

Yoko Ono is known for her work as an avant-guard artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon of the Beatles.  

(photo from Wikipedia: Ono at the opening ceremony of her art exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil. November 2007.)

And Twitter? Well, Twitter is interesting. I saw one of the co-founders of Twitter, Evan Williams, on Charlie Rose recently. He seemed as amazed at Twitter’s success as anyone and remains fascinated by its potential. (He even passed up a purported $300-500 million deal from Facebook because he wants to be onboard to help it meet its potential.)

According to Wikipedia: Twitter is a social-networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

If you aren’t on Twitter already, you may be wondering why this is something you might want to check out. I personally “follow” a lot of writers, artists, agents, editors and publishers, as well as everyday people and companies that interest me. This helps me feel connected to what’s going on in the circles that I travel in. Also there are some people that have amazing things to say and link to fascinating articles that I would have never found otherwise.

You can find Yoko Ono at http://imaginepeace.com. And on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/yokoono

Also, please consider following me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/susangabriel

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