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

[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.