
Back in the summer of 2009, while in Chicago on the very first Invisible People national road trip, I started to get tweets from a homeless woman @padschicago. Somehow Ann Marie found me and was trying to connect over twitter. At the time, Ann was one of the first homeless people I found using twitter. I frantically started replying to her trying to connect, but I wasn’t getting a response. I remember it being very frustrating because ‘normal’ people would have responded. Heck, she was the one to contact me. Then I realized that unless she had access to a real computer she was not seeing my replies. As it turns it, that was exactly the reason Ann was not responding. As soon as she ...
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