MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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I'm not missing out on anything - except 10% of users blathering 90% of the pap.
oh yes. I do use it to "follow" Steve Peat but this comment hits the nail on the head:
"Twitter is a broadcast medium rather than an intimate conversation with friends," he said.
When my work got onto Twitter I thought I should have a look, but who on earth would be interested in the minutiae of my life??
Meanwhile, back in the real world, you can always resort to talking to real people face to face. You may even end up riding bikes with them.
It's almost as big a waste of electricity as forums!
Meanwhile, back in the real world, you can always resort to talking to real people face to face. You may even end up riding bikes with them.
I've always argued that about Twitter/Facebook/Myspace et al, yet it is my wife who uses Facebook who is in contact with old friends regularly. Two small boys means tradtional face-to-face socialising is a luxury. I "get" facebook for Joe Public, but I don't get Twitter
Peoples desire to post their activities up on the internet is inversely proportional to how interesting they might actually be.
I mean I post enough crap up on here, and I'm a complete dullard!
I'd rather remove my own kidneys with a teaspoon than read anyones 'blog'
And while we're on the subject. I ****ing hate that word!!!!!
for those of you who need to know, im just off for a dump.
It always seems quite funny when people on internet forums dismiss some other internet thing as being nerdy and sad.
I don't get twitter, however. 😛
I must admit I tried Twitter. Is there any point to it though?
I use a few forums and Facebook for talking to people, having a laff, and organising stuff, but people don't actually converse on Twitter do they?
They just talk to/about themselves, yes?
Or have I missed something?
That's about right, PP
They just talk to/about themselves, yes?
Yep, but then that's the point of a blog, and if you have an interest in that person then it does make sense. I think it does work if you want to follow a celeb/sports person etc. Peaty is pretty good at updating his twitter; he'd posted that his training run at the weekend didn't go too well for instance. I've heard that Russell Brand's "tweets" are hilarious too
Ahh. I generally don't read blogs either, so that make more sense now. Twitter is a blog that doesn't give much info......
I use Twitter. I post every now and then, but i don't expect anyone to read them. However there are some 'celebs' who write fairly entertaining and interesting stuff - definitely worth wasting five minutes reading every now and then.
Tony Hawk
Calvin Harris
Dita von Teese
Stephen Fry
Brian Lopes
Hans Rey
are some of the better ones i've found.
Isn't twitter just an ideal tool for those people who feel the need to write a blog, then realise if fact (mostly) their lives are dull and boring and that one good idea for a rant does not equate into a lifelong blog...
the whole point of Twitter is a blog that limits you to how much you can write. End of...
If you've never been into blogs in the past (like me) Twitter won't persuade you. However as many celebs and companies are realising it is a great broadcast medium
PP, just set your account to automatically post "Eating cake" twice a day. It'd be more interesting and accurate than most people's. 😉
Binners, it's a bit unfair to lump in blogs with with ****ter. There are some really well-researched, funny and nicely put together blogs out there which piss all over the writing in most printed media. I would read stuff like Bikesnob (bikes) or Office Naps (nerdy 60s music) if they were magazines, so why not on tinternet?
Is soobalias back from his dump yet? 23 minutes is quite the motherlode - or a really good book.
*is concerned*
MrA - you cheeky git!
I normally only eat cake once a day....
😉
Maybe Soobalias is still working on the appropriate words to describe his monstrous loaf in all its glory.
Maybe there's bits of undigested peanut, that are causing him problems.
About to go for lunch.
Looking forward to a poo later.
"Twitter is a broadcast medium rather than an intimate conversation with friends," he said.
Not my experience of it at all.
I still haven't had one today. Should I be worried?
There was a report/study years ago that suggested text messageing (and ultimatley facebook etc) were very basic things that all humans wanted to do. Going back to cave paintings, they were never meant as masterpices, just letting the next person know what you'd been up to.
Writing "Sam is ................." isn't necceceraly someone showing off that they'r busy, just a need/desire to communicate what it is that you do.
Theres about 6 people in my e-mail address book, and about 600 on my facebook. THH its e-mail i don't see the point of! Thats what the phone (1to1) or facebook (1to~600) are for!
4 hours plus and no sign of Soobalias, time to call 999?