Tuesday, August 5, 2008

An observation on the ever-so popular "What are you doing?"

I've noticed something interesting with the answers the favourite question "What are you doing?".


Be it on Twitter or Facebook, people mostly tell us what they're thinking, rather than what they're actually doing. Not that thinking is a non-activity. Surely people do other things while their minds are working?


Here's a challenge to all of you: Try telling others what you're thinking AND what you're doing while thinking. Perhaps that could give people an idea of what influences you - what triggers your thought process.


For instance (all-be-it a bad example) what am I doing? I'm being bored, waiting for a system task to complete and wondering what other people at this time of night are doing besides thinking in 140 characters or less.