The participatory nature of Twitter and Facebook also makes them excellent tools for supercharging creativity. Users finely craft their bons mots to grab people’s attention and perhaps earn a retweet or two. As football coaches have long preached, you should practice like you play. Twitter and Facebook give knowledge workers the chance to turn downtime into a game where creativity and insight are rewarded, if only with digital pats on the back.
— “How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive,” Wired (via somethingchanged)
