Ambient Awareness

I stumbled across these two articles on the internet, and even though I wouldn't actually read both articles to the full extent, they were a definite source of entertainment. I should mention that I didn't 'stumble' on these articles, they were found when I typed, "I don't get twitter" into google.

Here are the results:

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You
By: Clive Thompson
Sept 5, 2008
NY Times

Second Article to sum up the first:
(The most entertaining one)

If you don't "get" Facebook and Twitter, read this NY Times article
By: Jeremy Liew
Sept 8, 2008
Lightspeed Venture Partners

I always thought ambient awareness was having the knowledge of who Brian Eno is.
Apparently not.
Although you really should have that kind of ambient awareness.