OK, we’re done with Twitter now.
That’s right folks, a toilet that Twitters every time it’s flushed. Because if that’s not a sign of the apocalypse, what is? Your mom making out with a robot. Oh, I thought you were asking. What do you mean I said it? LISTEN, I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING! Now, where were we? Right, a Twittering toilet.
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Really, though…Twitter has become my microblogging platform instead of using WordPress. It isn’t everything to everyone, and it is frequently put to silly use. But so are blogs… 🙂
Indeed, Mahakal — it has a ton of practical uses. As does facebook. But 80%, as of everything, is crap. Now literally…
Totally agreed, but why pick on Twitter specifically? It’s popular so it gets a lot of everything. It has a lot of technical issues though and it deserves a good degree of criticism for some of its problems, but that said I don’t think it’s going away soon.
But Donna, 80% of everything is not crap – that’s only true in the world of electronic ‘information’. Twitter is a form of entertainment. Blogs mostly are too. It’s because they are easy, fast, and cheap. And therefore do not require planning, cooperation, expense, and prior review and approval by collaborators or superiors.
Mahakal, I’m not picking on Twitter. It just continually provides the most idiotic examples of fresh idiocies. I am amused by them more than anything else, and use it as a way to justify my own dislike of such things and refusal to use the web 2.0 stuff. You must understand how old school I am — I go back to Arpanet days, for goodness sakes. We totally resent everyone else using “our” Internet, which we made purely for good and not stupid idiotic uses, as proven by any of the old Usenet logs. ;^)
Joe, the Pareto principle most certainly does apply to pretty much everything, really.
I could be even more cruel and cite Sturgeon’s law, of course, which holds that 90% of everything is crap…
Donna, I respect you like your set ways of doing things, and it’s natural for all of us. I don’t go back quite so far as you but I was on Fidonet originally. Certainly this whole new fangled web thing wasn’t around when I was first using the Internet. I remember the first time I saw the web — via text browser — it blew me away and I knew it would change everything.
Twitter, maybe not so much. 🙂
Interestingly it occurs to me that what I was doing back in those halcyon days was not so different from what we’re doing now. I ran Echomail and Groupmail lists for political discussions, mainly. Well, one big difference. I used to be arch conservative/libertarian.
Twitter does let me do fun things like this. 🙂
Oh well, guess I’m done with Twitter now too. On to Facebook.