Several friends have jumped on the 8:36pm bandwagon. Every night (or most nights, or whichever nights they feel like it) at 8:36 in the evening they tweet what they are doing at that very moment. According to bugeats who started the trend, one should do it every day, in order to shame yourself if you tweet “watching tv” day after day, but better yet, to motivate yourself to be doing interesting things with your evening (my paraphrase of his sentiments - accuracy not guaranteed).
I like that it’s a reversal of impetus on the whole twitter phenomenon. Rather than deciding you have something you want to share, you are prompted to share this snapshot in time, however mundane, at this precise moment in the evening when the possibilities of what you could be doing are probably about as varying as they could be at any point in the day. Or, in his words:
Why 8:36pm? For it’s lack of significance / proximity to evening “leisure time.” An impartial sampling of daily life.
Anyway, I like the trend and I hope to see more and more
