I actually enjoy watching the Dentyne commercials associated with their new campaign "Make face time"
El K Dee
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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
I've been collecting porn stamps for years.
hmmm I wonder what you use for the adhesive...
StereoPrincess
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Originally posted by Skipper
LOL. I don't think that's a relevant comparison ;) I hope I don't have to explain why!
I'm not joining because it's time consuming. I find I have less time for FB/boards these days, let alone signing up for anything new.
i don't know how you can discount the comparison.
back then the people that used horse and buggy said the exact same stuff.
too much time to get a car, too much money, i already have what i need....my life is too busy to even go on a horse and buggy how can i have time to use a car.
twitter would be perfect for you since you already don't have time for facebook, twitter takes a lot less time even. log on or even text in what you are thinking, possibly read some other people's updates and interesting links they are posting and go on with your day. i guarantee that a lot of people are very addicted to it already just like the facebook addicts that have to check everything all the time.
kaniz
"meh"
if you use it, like it, and find value to it - great
If not - so what.
But really, between 2 or 3 blogs/msg boards that I surf for 'personal stuff' at work + the wide number of work-related sites I go to, adding yet another social-networking time sink is not high on my list, hell - rarely even bother with FaceBook much anymore.
And, when I get in from work - my desire to surf the net greatly diminishes. I'd rather talk to friends, play around with music software, read, play with my cat, spend time with my BF, see friends, and when summer rolls around - do anything that provides me an excuse to get outside of the house and outdoors between the hours of 5pm and 10pm.
While I agree "not joining the newest trend just because its the newest trend" seems silly, but not joining just out of lack of interest/desire/don't see how it can benefit you is perfectly valid.
smuncky
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Originally posted by dEsidEL
sounds like the Borg collective
now there's something i can finally compare to.
Skipper
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Originally posted by StereoPrincess
i don't know how you can discount the comparison.
back then the people that used horse and buggy said the exact same stuff.
too much time to get a car, too much money, i already have what i need....my life is too busy to even go on a horse and buggy how can i have time to use a car.
twitter would be perfect for you since you already don't have time for facebook, twitter takes a lot less time even. log on or even text in what you are thinking, possibly read some other people's updates and interesting links they are posting and go on with your day. i guarantee that a lot of people are very addicted to it already just like the facebook addicts that have to check everything all the time.
The thing with the car/horse&buggy comparison is that people couldn't possibly fathom what a car could do. Given twitter's similarities to facebook, I am going to go out on a limb and say it's not quite as groundbreaking as the model T.
Is the internet in general easily compared to the invention of the automobile? absolutely. Both revolutionary. But these one off applications are not. I'm not saying they don't have their purpose or place but at this point nothing about twitter says revolutionary to me.
I guess the thing with being able to check what everyone is saying so much easier than facebook is that I don't give enough of a to care what you guys are doing every second of every day as it is ;) There are people on my FB who update their status at least 5x per day and I think it's lame. More of that has absolutely no appeal for me at all.
VDub
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Originally posted by love_child
twatter is the last thing on my mind
But what if you're thirsty???
Dirty
lol, ahhhh i nice big bottle of twatter.
i miss danielle.
El K Dee
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Originally posted by VDub
But what if you're thirsty???
ohhh sir....u have water and twatter mixed up here..
VDub
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Originally posted by El K Dee
ohhh sir....u have water and twatter mixed up here..
No no...
Same thing...
Stilez
speaking for myself only... when I initially joined twitter i used it strictly for following and getting real time updates on things that affect me and my immediate environment eg. TTC, News (tech, world, etc.). For me, FB is great for sharing pics and vids with people that you may know and possibly keeping in touch with long lost people that you may know (I find this to be more applicable to people who've moved from their hometown and want to keep in touch with family and friends that they've left behind. Me, I was born and raised here...I see gradeschool peeps all the time). It's also great for events... a big massive roll call. But for immediate info. in real time (shooting at subway station, protest blocking certain streets, power out at a certain location, etc...) I find twitter to be more informative. Plus, I also don't mind seeing what everyone else is thinking, doing atm..if they care to share. You frequently see an update that you can relate to and/or didn't know someone else was thinking/doing at the very same time as you. It's also more impersonal than FB since your whole life story isn't there for everyone to know. Depending on your settings, anyone in the world at any moment can read one of your updates and reply with something actually worthwhile.
I for one, saw this amazing short film that was put together by someone here in Toronto, that I would've never otherwise have seen or known about. This person isn't on my FB because I don't know them, but nevertheless...their work is brilliant.
I have serious ADHD and the whole creeping on FB isn't my thing. I'm usually on it for a set period..and do a bunch of updates at once if I see interesting stuff, but for the most part, I like to know the second OS 3.0 was released for the iPhone, there's a sale at Tiger Direct, a plane crashed off the coast of NFLD...without having to surf the net and visit a bunch of sites to get all this info. I"m a bit of a news junkie, so for me...this is perfect.
Once again. Just my take on it.
edit: Oh ya, and once in a while there are things that you just want to throw out there to the web universe, to whoever cares to read it... just because it's on your mind. It's no different than putting a message in a bottle. If no one responds...it's not the end of the world..u just threw it out there..but if someone does, and it's something funny or relative, that's pretty cool.
DigiNut
By "get", do you mean understand, or have an account?
I don't have an account. I don't want an account. That is partly due to the high value I place on privacy, and partly due to the fact that I simply don't derive any real joy from online attention; I recognize that many do not care [as much] about privacy, and that many do take pleasure in that mode of communication, perhaps on account of having better imaginations than I do.
If I post anything to an anonymous audience, it is because I feel I have something important to write about, and those things rarely fit into the space of a tweet, so the medium is useless for me as a form of expression.
I am interested in twitter in a totally impersonal sense; both for selfish reasons - somebody will cash in on this - and out of a sort of scientific curiosity - the example of the borg cube being not so far off, but not necessarily a bad thing either.
It's also clear that it's become something of a fad, and that many people who are doing it are simply doing it because it's the trendy thing to do, because it's what their shallow friends are doing, or because they have nothing better to do, and these people are in a state of constant denial. That is true of practically any activity; it's just more pernicious with Twitter because Twitter is so easy, like TV, the other thing I hate to listen to people drone on about.
Nevertheless, as I've pointed out in previous threads (did we really need to start a new one?), the enormously vast amount of hot steaming pouring out of the Twitter stream does not actually matter. It's an odd thing to say - to many people, that seems to be the focal point of Twitter - but it's actually just a bizarre side-effect. We could have said the same thing about blogs, when every idiot with an opinion was babbling away on LiveJournal, and yet every day when I'm scouring Google to solve a technical problem, the answer is usually on somebody's blog. For no other reason than that they felt like writing about it.
It has useful purposes. Most of its users will never even understand those, let alone benefit from them. It doesn't matter. That's not the part you're supposed to "get" - that's the part you're supposed to ignore.
