Having said that, I have no use for the entire genre of “interface” products like Facebook, Twitter or text messaging. I’ve never found a reason to send the first text message. I’ve heard “tweets” being read by my younger relatives and I really don’t care that their friends like the Fried Rice at Hunan Palace, or that traffic is heavy in cities 200 miles away. Likewise I don’t care when they get laid, payed or need to poop.
It all just seems like more of the insidious thinking that , “…life is ALL about ME, ME, ME…” that is killing the country. People who don’t know the names of their Congressman or Senator or County Dog Catcher aren’t likely to find out from other clueless twits who think their bodily functions, or likes and dislikes or their ‘merican Idol votes need to be reported to the world minute by minute.
I use Twitter mostly for short “Oh look at this” links when I don’t feel like posting a whole diatribe, and links back to my real blog when I do post a diatribe. At first, though, I couldn’t figure out what to do with it. I don’t use it as “social” media — I’m not very sociable — but it’s got possibilities as advertising for my blog.
There’s a reason, I’m sure, why a post to Twitter is called a “tweet.” Both kinds of tweet are emitted by creatures with similar brains.
Andrea,
Not an attack on you, but I hate it when bloggers do that. You can post short blog notes if you want to, and I don’t need to see your Tweet to know that your posted to your blog – that’s what RSS and Atom are for.
I think the article is right. Twitter has no clear purpose that it’s really good at. It also crashes a lot, which never happens to distributed protocols like RSS.
I don’t think I am using my Twitter page in the correct or intended manner. I actually post somewhat coherent sentences for the most part.
CIA wetwork still fun lolz!!
So don’t look at my Twitter page. It’s just there for people who like Twitter (I don’t, really; I’m just sort of indifferent) and may want to click through to my blog. Like I said, advertising — that I don’t have to put on my own site. As for my blog– well, I post what I want, when I want, and it will be as long or as short as I want. If I don’t want to post something on my blog I’m not going to. Personally I don’t want my blog cluttered up with a bunch of tiny short “look at this link” posts where I have nothing else to say; that’s my aesthetic. (In fact, I hate having to call it a “blog” — I’d rather call it a journal, but no one seems to recognize that term anymore.)
I am by no means a Ludite.
Having said that, I have no use for the entire genre of “interface” products like Facebook, Twitter or text messaging. I’ve never found a reason to send the first text message. I’ve heard “tweets” being read by my younger relatives and I really don’t care that their friends like the Fried Rice at Hunan Palace, or that traffic is heavy in cities 200 miles away. Likewise I don’t care when they get laid, payed or need to poop.
It all just seems like more of the insidious thinking that , “…life is ALL about ME, ME, ME…” that is killing the country. People who don’t know the names of their Congressman or Senator or County Dog Catcher aren’t likely to find out from other clueless twits who think their bodily functions, or likes and dislikes or their ‘merican Idol votes need to be reported to the world minute by minute.
I use Twitter mostly for short “Oh look at this” links when I don’t feel like posting a whole diatribe, and links back to my real blog when I do post a diatribe. At first, though, I couldn’t figure out what to do with it. I don’t use it as “social” media — I’m not very sociable — but it’s got possibilities as advertising for my blog.
There’s a reason, I’m sure, why a post to Twitter is called a “tweet.” Both kinds of tweet are emitted by creatures with similar brains.
Andrea,
Not an attack on you, but I hate it when bloggers do that. You can post short blog notes if you want to, and I don’t need to see your Tweet to know that your posted to your blog – that’s what RSS and Atom are for.
I think the article is right. Twitter has no clear purpose that it’s really good at. It also crashes a lot, which never happens to distributed protocols like RSS.
I don’t think I am using my Twitter page in the correct or intended manner. I actually post somewhat coherent sentences for the most part.
CIA wetwork still fun lolz!!
So don’t look at my Twitter page. It’s just there for people who like Twitter (I don’t, really; I’m just sort of indifferent) and may want to click through to my blog. Like I said, advertising — that I don’t have to put on my own site. As for my blog– well, I post what I want, when I want, and it will be as long or as short as I want. If I don’t want to post something on my blog I’m not going to. Personally I don’t want my blog cluttered up with a bunch of tiny short “look at this link” posts where I have nothing else to say; that’s my aesthetic. (In fact, I hate having to call it a “blog” — I’d rather call it a journal, but no one seems to recognize that term anymore.)