Originally Posted by Leslie66

I've always loved you, Simon.

Originally Posted by CitySimon

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Personally, I've never been able to get my head around Twitter. Do people think that their every day ongoings are of any interest to everyone else in the world?

It screams of a level of arrogance that I'm yet to even come close to. I'm on Facebook and my status is frequently left blank for weeks simply because I'm not doing anything really worth telling anyone about. Sure, it's important and interesting to me, but why would I consider that everyone else would be remotely interested in it?

Some of the people who go on there and update their status every few minutes strike me as completely insane... What do they write? Getting up... Scratching butt (Twittering with one hand)... Making a cup of coffee... Updating Twitter... Updating Twitter... Updating Twitter... Contemplating life.

Honestly, I think that if people actually got on with life rather than spending time telling other people about the mundane events in their boring lives they might get a bit more done.

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Originally Posted by CitySimon

[Rant=CitySimon]

Personally, I've never been able to get my head around Twitter. Do people think that their every day ongoings are of any interest to everyone else in the world?

It screams of a level of arrogance that I'm yet to even come close to. I'm on Facebook and my status is frequently left blank for weeks simply because I'm not doing anything really worth telling anyone about. Sure, it's important and interesting to me, but why would I consider that everyone else would be remotely interested in it?

Some of the people who go on there and update their status every few minutes strike me as completely insane... What do they write? Getting up... Scratching butt (Twittering with one hand)... Making a cup of coffee... Updating Twitter... Updating Twitter... Updating Twitter... Contemplating life.

Honestly, I think that if people actually got on with life rather than spending time telling other people about the mundane events in their boring lives they might get a bit more done.

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Originally Posted by meauxna

Move out of the way; he's mine.




Rant Ditto!
It's a poison, a pox, a curse and the end of civilization! Facebook too.
grrrr

I *needed* to know that my uncle had empanadas (that he didn't even spell correctly!!!) for dinner last night? AS he was having them? That his son was out walking the dogs?! "What kind of BRIDE will my male (married 15 years) cousin make"???

bah

Originally Posted by sunflwrgrl13

And while we are ranting: why the hell can't I get a cell phone that is simply a phone??? FFS, why do I need a camera, MP3 player, texting, email, excel/word/PDA functions on a fracking phone??

Originally Posted by meauxna

Move out of the way; he's mine.

Originally Posted by Bill_S

TESTIFY!

I'm happy with the service and coverage of Verizon, but they're off the deep end wrt gadgety phones. Not sure what I'm going to do when my years-old "just a phone" finally packs it in.

Things I do with my phone:

1 - make calls
2 - receive calls
3 - nothing... there is no third thing!

Originally Posted by sunflwrgrl13

Glad to see the OH and I aren't the only ones that don't buy into this social networking tell-the-world-i-just-took-a-crap mentality. I mean, really, who gives a rats ass?!?! Never had a myspace, facebook page and probably never will. I'll find out my news when the rest of the world finds out. Does anyone really care what I think the meaning of life may be, or that my turd just floated in the toilet instead of sinking?

And while we are ranting: why the hell can't I get a cell phone that is simply a phone??? FFS, why do I need a camera, MP3 player, texting, email, excel/word/PDA functions on a fracking phone??

Originally Posted by Sir Denis Eaton-Hogg

Twitter = second best work procrastination tool after Facebook And can be more addictive than Meth!

Look at some of the famous Twitters, Stephen Fry is oft lauded. Look at a few of his Tweets and you will see what its all about.

Much more fun looking for 'celeb' Tweets and trying to work out which ones are real and which ones are fake... there are some priceless ones!

Originally Posted by Ridski

And yet here you are on a social networking forum telling us your opinion on Twitter like any of us should care.

Seriously. You don't see the irony of that?

Originally Posted by Ridski

There's a great one for John Kreese, the character name of the Sensei from The Karate Kid. All his tweets are in character. So, yeah, while most of it is "Cheltenham station, taking a crap", there's a ton of it that's entertaining thoughts and silly competitions, much from professional comedians, such as Stephen Fry, Kevin Pollak, Rainn Wilson, Peter Serafinowicz, Jimmy Carr, Phill Jupitus, The Onion newspaper even Peter Sagal of NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. I don't check it all the time, I don't post all the time, but was fun to be able to send out a quick tweet that I was bowling with Kirsten Dunst the other day and wondering if she was on it, reading it.

But hey, each to their own. As someone upthread said, it's really more like a massive chat room than just posting what you're doing these days. Much more interactive than anyone imagined.

Originally Posted by Leslie66

Do you really consider this a social networking sight? I think that any social networking that happens is an accidental byproduct.

Originally Posted by another bloody yank

For you maybe. I hate to break it to you, but the rest of us get together all the time. In Dallas even. We don't invite you because you're mean.

Originally Posted by Bill_S

TESTIFY!

I'm happy with the service and coverage of Verizon, but they're off the deep end wrt gadgety phones. Not sure what I'm going to do when my years-old "just a phone" finally packs it in.

Things I do with my phone:

1 - make calls
2 - receive calls
3 - nothing... there is no third thing!

Originally Posted by Leslie66

HA! You don't travel any further than a 15 mile radius out of that swamp you call home. You're too terrified that somebody might touch your guns or cling to your religion while your gone, Jethro.