Each Friday, in honor of the #FollowFriday tradition on Twitter, we will be featuring one of our own Featured Users on the blog.

Today we hear from Jonathan Hersh. Jonathan is a sales engineer for Salesforce, a developer, a designer, and a blogger. He can be found on Twitter as @jhersh.

Tell us about yourself.

I grew up in New Jersey and majored in Advanced Sarcasm Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, then tricked them into also awarding me undergraduate and graduate degrees in Information Systems.

I’m passionate about how people can use technology to communicate better. By day I’m a sales engineer at salesforce.com, by night my masked alter-ego takes over – I build things that people click on!

How (and when) did you first come to be on Twitter, and how has the experience evolved for you?

I don’t recall exactly when I joined, but radiocarbon dating puts it on June 3, 2007 at 10:08pm. I don’t think I had any idea at the time what Twitter was used for, and my account sat dormant for two years.

Since then I’ve come to realize that Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform for connecting with people, brands, and cats, the likes of which we’ve never seen before (the platform, not the cats). Remember that Twitter has its roots in SMS, itself an equally disruptive communication technology.

Twitter is great in that it can be your own personalized feed about any subjects you like, but it’s revolutionary in that it gives everyone access to a viral network of retweets, geotagging, and the social graph (the map of relationships between users). Its value in business and personal networking is immense, much more so than anything in this world except good old-fashioned meatspace meet-ups.

My crystal ball is in the shop for repairs, but I don’t anticipate our phones, computers, and social networks even 3-5 years from now will remotely resemble those we have today. The rate of technological advancement is increasing at a staggering rate. It’s a phenomenal time in the history of homo sapiens to be alive.

Where are you located? What’s your favorite thing about where you live?

I moved to San Francisco about 19 months ago.

I’ve found San Francisco to be remarkably resistant to categorization, so I’ve been piecing it together gradually, in fits and starts, like a jigsaw puzzle after you lost the cover of the box. It’s a city where all kinds of crazy ideas can find support, it’s as close to a global technology capital as there is, and its weather makes absolutely no sense. I love that there’s lots of live music, an incredibly broad spectrum of eateries, and so many dynamic, thriving neighborhoods to discover. I imagine I’ll be exploring this town for a long time to come.

What are you most excited about sharing with your followers?

140 characters isn’t a lot of space, so I don’t want to waste your time on Twitter. I tweet about my passions: technology, the Interwebs, philosophy and the ethics of the digital era, peculiarities of San Francisco, and YOU…wait, what was the question?

One of my 2010 resolutions was to start blogging. There are some things that require more than 140 characters!

What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not online?

I’ve recently taking up motorcycling. It’s a learning process that hasn’t always gone smoothly, but it’s great fun regardless. San Francisco and the greater bay area is some of the most beautiful, panoramic scenery in this country. Any time you spend exploring the outdoors here, whether it’s riding, climbing, hiking, or driving, is time well spent indeed.

Thanks Jonathan! Good luck with all your ventures and adventures, and please be careful on that bike!