Twitter Rant

[stusegal]

Occasionally I have something to say. Usually it takes several paragraphs. I find LiveJournal is a good format.

A few months back I joined Facebook, because many of my friends who were on LiveJournal, and many more who were not, joined. I've learned FB is for the more social aspects - but whenever I actually have something to say, I crosspost a link to my LJ post on FB, just in case someone wants to read it.

Now I notice some folks crosspost their Tweets onto FB. So I know who's having coffee, who's in a cab and who took a shower this morning. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have this information - how I've gotten through life without knowing that Lamar was having his green tea is a mystery. My life now feels complete.

(BTW - now that we have gone from the paragraphs of LJ, to the photos and links of FB, to the sentences of Twitter, I wonder where it goes next. Can our attention span get shorter? Can we just send a symbol? Perhaps the artist that was formerly Prince, who was then represented by a symbol, but is now again known as Prince because nobody really "got it", was really on to something when he was represented by the symbol).

Comments

[alanashinean.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get where you are coming from on the twitter thing. I guess its good if you are really bored and it gives you something to spam and something to read, but mostly I belong to LJ and Facebook because I want to know what is going on in my friends' lives- in a larger sense than what kind of coffee they are having this morning. I don't think any of my friends would mind me not keeping up with their tweets.

I agree . . .

[stu-segal.livejournal.com]

LJ and FB lets me know what's going on with friends - and if you have an especially memorable meal, or a fabulous-greatest-desert-in-the-last-30-years I would certainly like to know.

But hey, every time you get into a cab, onto a plane, have a cup of coffee - that stuff is just plain boring in MY OWN life, why do I want to hear someone else's drudgery?

Gotta agree with you there

[chellemtoo.livejournal.com]

I joined twitter, to see what the fuss is about. I don't get it. I don't get it from a personal perspective, and I don't get it from a marketing/business perspective. I chose to follow Fox News and Brent Spiner. Fox News sends news updates about every 30 seconds and fills up my feed entirely. But at least it kinda makes sense.

Brent Spiner is WAY out there. Entertaining, but way out there.

But who would really care what I'm doing right now? I doubt even my closest friend cares what I'm having for breakfast.

Wonder if you can block Twitter Feeds like you can block other apps on facebook?

Re: Gotta agree with you there

[stu-segal.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Good question.

So I went to the FB Twitter app, and when you use the block it tells you that it will prevent Twitter from gathering info about yourself, but will not block you from seeing other peoples. . . . .

So the answer is NO.

I certainly don't have anything against Twitter, I just don't want to be forcibly TWEETED TO DEATH!!

Re: Gotta agree with you there

[alanashinean.livejournal.com]

TWEETED TO DEATH is just an awesome phrase. I giggled.

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

;. ..^

[stu-segal.livejournal.com]

B-)

[alanashinean.livejournal.com]

\o/

[gilraen2.livejournal.com]

i joined twitter because my disabled sister wanted me to do so. i tweet at her a couple of times a day. she's online most of the day because it is her lifeline to the world. i'm online most of the day because i work at a computer for long periods.

what got me was that within 24 hours of joining twitter i had followers - some unknown to me - who wanted to listen to me say "i'm in the office this morning", "lunch time, think i'll have a BLT", or "the tomatoes in the back yard are coming up just fine".

you want to hear about lunch and the tomatoes? i'm "memorman" on twitter. or, of course, you could just get some therapy.

[stu-segal.livejournal.com]

My gripe isn't with Twitter - it's with people who have found a clever way to crosspost their Tweets into blogs and other social sites. They don't seem to realize that just because folks want to follow their blog, they may not want to follow their Tweets.