Man am I fuckin’ tired of hearing about Twitter
I know I’m getting older. I know that I am dating myself with not caring about some popular things. Like Facebook — not only have I not bothered with it, I don’t much see the point in it. I’m not clear if I should say “I’m not on Facebook” or “I didn’t get a Facebook” or “I’m not plugged in to the Facebook” so I avoided the construction in the previous sentence entirely. This quite clearly separates me from teenagers. Fine.
But I draw the line at Twitter. Not only do I not see the point of it, but I am goddamned tired of people on TV making a big fuss about it. That slight pause, that very slight head turn, that just as slight smirk before saying “tweets”.
All of ‘em need to get off my goddamned lawn.
May 1st, 2009 18:17
amen. If there is a counter argument to ‘brevity is the soul of wit’, Twitter is it. (my apologies if I’ve mis-used the comma/apostrophe thing. I’ve enjoyed the years of chuckles here, but somehow never ever figured out how to use them myself.)
May 1st, 2009 22:12
I loooove facebook. It allows me to easily keep in touch with a ton of people, though admittedly mostly people I don’t really want to keep in touch with. It’s buggy and stupid at times, but still about 10,000 times better than myspace.
As for twitter, I have one, but I hate it and it’s stupid. Facebook works so much better and has so much more to offer. The 140 character limit twitter insists upon pisses me off (they even count spaces). It’s stupid and pointless and apparently the vast majority of people who use twitter quit after a month. I can’t wait until it goes away. I only got one because a small handful of people I know have it, but it’s all just such pointless noise, and I have to wade through literally 100’s of stupid sentences I don’t wanna read. God, it’s just so damn annoying!
tl;dr Facebook ftw, twitter suxxors!
May 1st, 2009 22:15
For the record, whereas “I didn’t get a Facebook” is technically appropriate I believe “I’m not on Facebook” would be the more acceptable construction.
May 1st, 2009 22:20
Oh! also, the pics on fb work better –/I/ think– then myspace. Though the resizing drives me crazy. I wanted the pic of my Anthropology teacher to be bigger than any reasonable screen could accommodate, he’s just that awesome.
May 1st, 2009 23:39
Count me in for the get off my lawn crowd. I find the practice of website creators featuring their tweets on their websites especially annoying. I love Lore, but yesterday I did not need to know that he likes sammiches (sic). If I wanted to read those, I would have subscribed to the feed. Makes me wish I could beat them all with my cane.
May 2nd, 2009 11:42
I don’t even bother with Twitter. Trendy or not, I can’t think of one damn use that I have for it. I have a Myspace and a Facebook, neither of which do much for me. There was a time when it was cool to get in contact from many long-lost old friends and classmates, but after that initial “Hey! How’ve you been?”, it just goes nowhere.
The only experience I had with Twitter was recently when Ashton Kutcher and CNN were competing to be the first one with a million followers. I would never vote for either of them, but I did watch as a group of internet hooligans made a tasteless profile that actually almost came close to catching up to them:
http://twitter.com/basementdad
They had up to about 300,000 followers — many of which were fake accounts created with scripts. After Ashton won the contest, Twitter caught on to the bogus competitor. Ever since, they’ve been deleting all those fake users… one at a time. They still have about 78,000 to go as I write this.
May 4th, 2009 11:13
The Twitter 140 character limit is the SMS limit (cell texting). If they went above that, the tweets couldn’t be sent over SMS.
I have a Twitter account, but I’m not a big fan. Facebook, however, is pretty cool. I’ve definitely been able to make better connections with people that I might have only seen occasionally in “real” life.
Greg, you could make an A1-AAA application for Facebook and probably make a fortune. ;)
May 4th, 2009 18:54
I think this article published last week really sums up why twitter is good if you do any sort of online publishing, discussion, etc.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164107/twitter_quitters_just_dont_get_it.html
with twitter you can reduce your exposure to verbal masturbation, have a conversation and share stories/web items. I really do think the era of the personal blog for everyone has peaked.
May 5th, 2009 04:35
twitter is just a big spam box
who the hell has time to deal with it? My box trap is filled with followers that I have no freaking idea who they are, and every single one that I bothered to check out of curiosity might as well be spamming my email for all the good that twitter is
the stuff in my spam filter from facebook have all been long lost friends
twitter is boring confused and will soon fizzle….
May 22nd, 2009 22:08
If you used twitter in the past, does that make you a twat?
May 23rd, 2009 02:14
Forever.
May 23rd, 2009 13:16
You could say “I’m Faceless and I’m not a Twit.”
May 28th, 2009 10:22
I think twitter is stupid. Twitter is the new beating your chest while waving a tree branch around to let the world know you’re there. I bet if you give Koko, the gorilla, a twitter account; you would not be able to tell the difference between her posts and anyone else on twitter’s posts.
cuteg14: OMG he so looked at me ^_^
racing555: new bag of parts for cuda lol
apegirl11: Got new banana, crayon. Kitten likes.
September 1st, 2010 07:23
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