Just ran into a post from Shed - a guy exploring Enterprise 2.0 tips and tricks - explaining why he loves microblogging and realized that I am using it in a very similar way

From his post :

"So why do I love microblogging?  Well it’s nothing more than just presence detection with bells and whistles on.  People not only get to know that your hanging around in a place but they also get to know how you’re feeling and what your doing.  This in turn reminds them of your existence and sometimes it kicks off something in their brain that reminds them that they need to have a chat with you.  Not only that but the status gives them a way in, a way to start the conversation that’s a bit more exciting and a bit easier than just the plain old “hi”. Basically what I’m trying to say is it lowers the barriers of communication.  It does this so much that I now even have people who I’ve never heard of contacting me simply because they follow my MS communicator notes.  They get something out of it and I get to make another contact, another person who can get stuff done for me when I need a favour."

It's really strange and fun that sometimes I find myself speaking to a person I follow up in twitter or facebook and make a comment related with something they had posted. There is always a delayed response while they are thinking "How the hell does he know that ..." before I mentioned that I read it in their status. I agree that definetely lowers the barriers of communication. And I believe that if more people in our working environment were using these tools, we could make our interpersonal communication much more easier.

Read the full post here : http://theshed2.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/i-love-microblogging