It's been a month and a half on Twitter, the unwashed phenomenon, and it still feels like making passes at the indifferent woman on the other end of the bar counter. She isn't doing anything for me, or is she?

I haven't been on a Facebook, Orkut or a LinkedIn. Twitter has been my first social networking experience. I read a riveting Time magazine article by Steven Johnson on how 140-character posts were changing the way people met people. Temptation of experience is a glib seller. I joined up. It has so far been a disappointment.