I am still skeptical about this new “technology” even if our one-man Illuminati overlord from God’s Debris states humans soak up communications like a sponge in order to transcend. People seem to use Tweeter in pretty stupid ways. I think I will stick to the ambiguous and confusing quotes I offer to the world in my Facebook status.
–Ravious
method in the madness
What is Facebook?
But then how will you know who had a complete breakfast…?
Twitter in a nutshell imo:
http://www.bigblueball.com/social-networks/what-is-twitter/
That was excellent.
Twitter meh. We had this already, it was called SMS. All that’s changed is logging, tracking and an alternate delivery system. That’s not why it’s gone critical mass though. Nah, that happened when the media latched onto it because it has a cute name and they’re desperate for technological relevance.
It’s like, Doom didn’t matter culturally until they were playing it on Friends.
Mind you, I’m meh with Facebook too. Even moreso. Somewhere between LiveJournal, Friendster and Orkut I burned out on social networks. MySpace really confirmed I was done with the trend. Oddly I discovered I don’t actually need a walled garden website to keep up with my friends. In fact, most appreciate that I’m not filtering contact through some trendy semi-techy service. The rest: They prefer meeting in-game. =P
Anyway, nobody else linked it, so I have to: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
One thing I have heard about Twitter… if you want to receive a LOT of updates, follow Stephen Fry :p
I don’t use it myself. And even if I did, I would probably only follow people and never make any of my own updates.
“We had this already, it was called SMS. All that’s changed is logging, tracking and an alternate delivery system. ”
That’s like discounting the web by saying “We had this already, it was called gopher.”
@Pete S: No seriously, Twitter does very little for me and I’m tired of people on this fad declaring it a revolution. You just compared it to the frickin’ web, now who’s comparison is utterly ludicrous?
Because no-one ever used Facebook to do anything stupid.
I’m pretty sure that people called blogging a “fad” and said it would never catch on. I’m also pretty sure that some blogs are dull, pointless and inane while others happen to be useful and informative. The same could be said of Twitter.