So, everyone (my friend Colin) has been bugging me to use Twitter, which is apparently like just your Facebook status updated with every little thing you ever do, say or think. Is this really necessary? I don't even use my Facebook status to actually keep people abreast of what I'm doing...I just put whatever song lyric/movie quote I have in my head at the moment (or I use it to profess my undying love for John Locke. The world needs to know these things!). Can someone please explain this to me? Or am I totally right (as usual) that Twitter is for egomaniacs with too much time on their hands? Well?
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Things I Don't Understand: Twitter
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I don't get Twitter either. I have no desire to let people know exactly what I'm doing every minute of every day. First, because it's none of their business. And second, do they really care? I certainly don't care what everyone else is doing at 3:34:26 in the afternoon unless it's catching money that's fallen out of the sky.
I agree completely. This is yet another instance in which other people have grossly overestimated my interest in their lives.
I have nothing to add to you or the first two commenters. Which begs the question, "Why am I here?" Oh, right. Because Twitter sucks.
There are moments in everyone's life that do not require advertisment...bathroom breaks, tweezing those unwanted chin hairs, eating that second big mac...you get the idea. Privacy is still a good thing....for everyone's sake!
I HATE IT AND IT'S STUPID.
There, I've been meaning to get that off my chest for a while. Stupid Twitter.
I used to use Twitter before FB but now that I started FB I don't anymore. Plus, for whatever reason, people started following me on Twitter that I don't know. I then locked my account so you couldn't follow me if I didn't ok it. Stupid Twitter. Plus I only had like 2 friends that used it and all I saw on it was them chatting back and forth. Whatever.
I didn't want to tweet but Twittering friends twisted my arm. One good thing is that it updates your Facebook status, which I never bothered to do before. The other good thing is that it got a lot of new blog readers for me. I try not to write anything too moronic. Lots of people seem to use it as a group, real-time chat.
How else could I keep everyone apprised of my bowel movements? This is important shit.
I am strictly anti-Twitter. I only use it to stalk reporters for work. Which is creepy and unprofessional.
Well, you could follow John Locke on twitter...
Twitter.com/John_Locke_
I keep coming back to the comments of this post to see if anyone has an explanation for the popularity of Twitter. There has to be more to it than this post and the accompanying comments suggest because I keep hearing more and more about it. I'm curious to understand why it's so popular, but, to this point, I still find it useless. I've signed up, and I'm trying to get a feel for it, but so far I find it inane.
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