Twitter: I don't get it.

[mckitterick]

Do you? If so, what am I not getting? Mostly, I find "tweets" irritating and lacking in anything I'd want to read. Despite the cute name.

Chris

Comments

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

So. Annoying. I hate it. It's another generational thing--with the young hip set so in need of being noticed all the time. roya_spirit and I have noticed this in the Bellydance world, too. Young dancers putting clips of their (early, painful) rehearsals, not asking for critique or tips, but just saying "Hey! Look at me!" It's the same mentality that demands you call your friends as soon as you get out of class, to let them know, that you just got out of class.

I have no patience for it. Surprise.

[normalcyispasse.livejournal.com]

It boils down to a lack of substance. Why waste bandwidth -- cyber or neural -- on unsubstantial things? Does it matter, and does anyone care? The answer to both is, of course, no.

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

But they do care, desperately. And that is just sad.

Also, yes, I think of this PA every damn time someone mentions Twitter.

[bestill.livejournal.com]

Uh, I always thought a twitter was the feeling you got in the nether regions when you got all hot and bothered.

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

That is a much better use of the word. Hear, hear!

[bestill.livejournal.com]

That's how I've always used . . . "Oh, I just got a little twitter . . . " Maybe people thought I meant someone just messaged me. That could explain a lot . . .

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I suspect you're right. What would our parents' generation do with Twitter? Probably wrinkle their brows in confusion. Or use it all the time to blather on about nothing.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

How about look at it and say "A life of one-liners is not worth living.", said the person old enough to be your parent.

I just do not find the lines that folks post from twitter either entertaining or otherwise communication-worthy. So you get news about an earthquake Real Fast. Whoopee.

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

I signed up for it on a whim to see if I'd use it.

Nope.

In fact, as soon as someone else's tweets started showing up on my lj (WTF?), I canceled the account.

And when I see tweets and twitters on my f-list, I just skip them. Nothing to see here, moving along.

I'm much too private of a person to feel a need to share random brain droppings all day.

I only see it being useful for a group of folks on a project to check in with each other.