Bridge to Telepathy (And it's current iteration via social media and mobile technology)

Last night having attended the latest Chicago “Tweet-Up” with Colonel Tribune I observed a behavior which reminded me of a recurring thought I’ve been having regarding the human thought process and social media.

It is not that inconceivable to think microprocessors will some day be able to be manipulated by brain impulses. On the same note, it's also not that unlikely that said microprocessors would be small enough to implant into the human brain & interact with it.

Now let's take it a step further. Wouldn't it be quite imaginable that wifi, bluetooth, etc would have the possibility of being integrated into those chips? Well my friends what you have at that point are all the ingredients for digital telepathy.

If users of such chips set up their wifi to act like a twitter account (where you could only send/receive direct messages to/from those you approve) your brain would be relatively free from the barrage of messages from other would be intruders. (Advertisers, Random Thought Projectors, Creepy People)

I would think the process would be similar to texting someone or sending an email of your thoughts, and they would choose whether to respond. (And hopefully this method wouldn't have you racking up 10 cent charges per “brainwave” on your phone bill.)

In my mind, we're not that far off from already doing this now. When we are sitting in the same room "compunicating" we are in essence doing what I described above. The only difference is that we have a middleman to go through between two+ brains which are eyes, fingers, and devices (blackberry, iphone, etc) but one could still argue that this process could be considered a form of telepathy.

Imagine how many business models would be born or die from such a reality?