I agree. There is no real innovation in it. It has still reached a level of popularity though and is here to stay. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ones.
its like a mini blog thats short and sweet and actually pretty interesting to look back on how your day went months from now without having to read pages and pages of blogs, plus if u are doing something really cool 'n might forget about it just tweet it frm ur cell 'n there u have it. its a great idea imo
No, no, no... you've got it all wrong... 'Twitter' is 'cool'. It's 'hip', man.
same here i like to see what the pros are up to as well. just today in fact the bryan brothers were talking about how their friend was serving to them inside the baseline to get them ready for ivo karlovic's serve in the upcoming davis cup match
Twitter is still a pretty geeky community and is even controversial within my industry (IT), but it does allow direct access to many people and organizations you wouldn't have access to before twitter, so I think it's pretty useful. Nice to be able to exchange messages w/ CEOs, VCs, TV personalities, media people, etc. If you tried to email them, you'd just get skipped or trashed. Neat tool, IMO.Oh wow hah didn't even notice.Wow nice to see it only took 6 months to get this thread warmed up...
I agree, it is a great tool. It becomes un-great, however, when you follow your friends and they insist on telling the world what they just ate for dinner, or how really really really really *really* bored they are and if anybody wanted to hang out. Especially when the junk tweets make it impossible to find the tweets you really want.Wow nice to see it only took 6 months to get this thread warmed up...
You can't call pro athletes? Anyway facebook is just useful for those friends in other towns who you aren't going to talk to regularly but it's nice to be able to still contact them with no akwardness
^ You apparently don't understand its rather profound negative effects on society and on human relationships.
Until I was convinced to (at least consider) the possibilities, I was of the same mind as you. Now I text ... FB ... LinkedIn and ... Tweet. (I also was on Plaxo -- for about 30 hours. Plaxo's system is *designed* to generate spam. I quit it.) I use them all as business tools ; not playthings.
You don't understand. The "celebrities" like these Social Media tools. They like them because THEY have a sense of empowerment. Instead of having their lives broadcast by paparazzi ... they "beat the snoops to the punch" and publish what THEY want to publicize. (It isn't any more -- or less -- compelling than what the tabloid journalists would print or air, but THEY have a sense of being "in control.")
I'm a non-Staff HS Coach. I need to regularly communicate with about 40 kids and about 74 parents. The kids will not use e-mail anymore. They'd rather text. But they WILL go on FB. I am "friended" by the kids and their parents, and I can post one announcement on FB and they get it. The phone is nowhere near as efficient.
Don't use it. Then you can sit on your high horse and smugly moralize.... (Oh, wait. You already do this all the time.)
I used to lump them all together, too. MS *is* all about kids. The fastest growing demographic on FB is .... women between 35 and 54 years of age. Boomers are huge on FB.
I have my friendships and don't consider the amount of "friends" or "followers" i have as some sort of accomplishment. I use facebook to keep in touch with friends, different kinds of events and stuff they may be planning and gigs that bands i like are planning. What's wrong with that? the effect on society is GOOD in this respect. It allows exposure for those who need it most, and it makes it easier for friends to keep in touch. Again, even if your points were completely valid (im not saying that they are or arent in general...i AM saying they are wrong in regards to me personally), why resort to insults just because you don't like people using these services? What do you gain from that?
This is my feeling exactly. I can't be bothered with time-wasting toys. So many people these days seem either starved for attention (facebook, Twitter) or overly concerned about someone else's business (Twitter). Who the hell cares?
there are many situations where texting is nice.......but I am not one of those freaks who txts for hours instead of calling.
you, like deuce, only address one instance of how these services are used. educate yourself before you pretend to know what you are talking about.
I think Facebook is great. I changed high schools after 9th grade and moved half way across the US. I still talk to my buddies on it all the time. The new chat feature makes it even better. I dont spend much time on it. I just check it maybe once or twice a day.
^ You must like these 'social networking' toys because it makes it easier to send out cowardly cheap shots.
^ That's both pathetic and very frightening.
^ Where did I insult you?
^ I believe it's you who needs to be educated.
^ No - you do not TALK to your 'friends' on Facebook. You TYPE to them using generic type.
True, it isnt actually talking but it is better than nothing. This year me and friends were all seniors taking AP classes, working , playing sports etc. We never had time to call each other and talk. With Facebook it is at least possible to drop them a line really quick and ask them what is going on in their lives. When I have time, I always talk to my friends via phone. It is just that people dont have time to call and talk for long periods of time these days because of busy schedules.
^ It's interesting how the 'new generation' seems to believe that 'busy schedules' are a new thing... that in the past, people weren't busy.
my grandmother is scared of technology too
^ Likely because she has the experience and wisdom to see the damage that it's done so far.
It's true. People were busy in the past as well and they had to plan to make calls and meet up. For me, Facebook is just something extra I can use to communicate with them. This, by no means, will prevent me from making plans to meet them in person or talk to them on the phone. I agree, a lot of internet communication is crap and the value of face to face communication has indeed gone down. There is no doubt talking to people in person is much better but all I am saying is that facebook does serve as a form of communication even if it is much inferior to person to person communication.
first im a twit and now im arrogant? because i disagree with you? i dont think i know better, i simply know that i dont know. you, however, seem to have it all figured out and i can only hope to learn from YOU.
My 'twit' comment was a general one. If you saw yourself in it, don't blame me.
^ Whether you learn from me or from your grandmother or from both, or neither, of us, is entirely your choice.
i understand that it did sound arrogant, but i promise i only had in mind the same idea when i said to you that i "know that i dont know". i didnt want to imply that i had it all figured out. you said people who use twitter are twits...i use twitter. through deduction that makes me a twit. no need for name calling, especially from someone who seems to be pretty intelligent.
Again - it was written generally, and not aimed at any particular individual.
As I said, a useless toy. A distraction. As for self-education, there are way too many good books out there that I need to read, so why would I waste my time with this fluff? What possible "NEED" is there for this "technology"?
there is no "need". just as there is no need for those books you speak of. i have no problem with people's views, but the fact is there ARE legitimate uses for these services. especially as a musician who's income rests solely on other people, and entertainment...i need a way to advertise easily to people i know, and people they know and so on. i can get hired by giving a bar/club/hotel/coffee shop a link to my myspace to hear my music and see pictures and read feedback and see what interest others might have in my music and performance. this was actually the reason myspace was created in the first place...for musicians.
Oh! The irony.
That was a good one!
Ole Deuce has never been in short supply of hypocrisy. Railing like some cranky luddite while making his ten thousandth post on an internet forum...
Musicians did just FINE B.F. (before facebook). It's all about the MUSIC.
It's possible to create or rationalize a need for any new toy that comes down the pike. That doesn't mean that it is "important".
Well, that much I know, based on the few posts of yours that I've read in other threads.
No, no need to "attack" anyone for using this stuff. I mean, there's a bandwagon and people DO jump on it, en masse, like sheep. Some of those people are my friends, some are my family and some are simply okay, other than the fact that they're bandwagon jumpers. In the end, no big deal.
^ You've never been able to rationally (or even irrationally) argue against anything I've posted on this board, KK - all you ever do is take these tiny, evasive cheap shots.
^ Only those without any concept of understanding even basic logic... and thoroughly transparent and biased twits, like the one below...
why are so many people scared of technology?? youre using a computer to post here online, right? everything you type is meant to be read...so how are you less narcissistic than anyone using twitter? your comment about musicians, again, is merely that. no insight or argument there, just some comment that doesnt even say anything. this forum is full of people with stances, but devoid of logical argument or meaning.
^ Apprehensive is a better word than 'scared' in this context. Although 'scaredè can certainly be appropriate.
^ Writes the voice of vast experience.
