Since I am a comedian first and a designer second, I tend to read a lot of comedy blogs as well as design and social networking blogs.  I was surprised tonight to find a post that combined these.  Over on the comic’s comic there is a great post about how Twitter has changed the way we enjoy television events.  I experienced it first with the Super Bowl this year.  As I watched the game and the commercials I had fun tweeting about them, and also was able to enjoy the comments from the people I follow.  It felt like I was watching the game with hundreds of other people.  During the Grammy’s I was able to enjoy the same experience.  Since I live in the Mountain Time Zone, I was delayed an hour from those people on the east coast and it was fun to see their tweets and see a hint of what was coming up.

On Sunday the Oscars will be broadcast in roughly the same way and I’m planning to be their with my laptop and enjoying the comments made by various other people as we watch the show.  It’s amazing to see that this technology is allowing users to be connected on a level not really imagined just a few years ago.  As other social networking technologies develop it will be interesting to see how this will change our relationship with others.