Twitter Rant
Apr. 12th, 2009 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stusegalOccasionally 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).
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).
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Date: 2009-04-12 05:09 pm (UTC)I agree . . .
Date: 2009-04-12 06:18 pm (UTC)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?