I was killing time in a car dealership today and cruising through my Twitter stream when I came across this tweet from Todd Defren:
Apparently it's my FIVE YEAR Twitterversary. Wow. This thing's been on for 5 years? Can you envision it being around another 5?
Consequently, after the tweet, he wrote this about his twitterversary:
I read it and thought hey, I've been on Twitter nearly as long and I should probably reflect where I was five years ago today as opposed to today. Here are those random thoughts:
- I was just starting a new gig at the MSLGROUP as VP and Director of Digital Communications, coming there as Director of Marketing and Communications of Malden Catholic High School
- My youngest was just about eight months old
- Myspace was still considered a competitor of Facebook and an open graph sounded more like an open wound than a social media term
- I was still rocking PC's at that time and my love for Apple was developed a few months later
- I was using a Motorolla Q as my smartphone (ouch, I know)
- The Red Sox were about to win their second World Series in three years
- The Patriots went undefeated and lost in the Superbowl
- The Celtics didn't have the new big three
- The Bruins still weren't registering on the sports scale in Boston (outside of big puck heads)
- The economy was in much better shape, sort of
- Wars were still raging on in lands I've never been to and will never see other than through a computer screen, mobile device or TV
- I had two TiVo's running in my house
- Biz Stone launched this service called Twitter that was used primarily via SMS or the web (my first tweet stated that I was walking down Boylston Street in Boston)
Lots has changed in just five years. Can't wait to see what the next five bring.