Thanks, man. There are people who I otherwise care about on LJ who I've considered de-friending just because I can't deal with "tweets." I don't know exactly what it is about them. I don't mind reading about people's minutiae if they bother to expand on it in a paragraph. I also don't mind reading really short snippets - especially if they express something meaningful. Twitter just seems like it's one level lower than a Facebook status update. Or something. If I ever put my finger on it, I'll write something about it.
Well, people do tend to Twitter the most useless stuff. Plus if you don't use twitter yourself, things like the # and @ marks are just confusing and look silly.
But, the whole point of twitter is that it's a place to say tiny things all day long if you want, and most of them are just too meaningless to put on LJ. Even facebook, I tend to reserve for stuff of more substance than the kind of thing that would go on twitter.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. There's an interesting article in the March issue of The Sun about how computers/the internet/related technology are changing our neural processes and possibly making it more difficult to pay attention to longer forms such as books and also dumbing down our information supply - giving us almost unlimited data but without context.
It's really interesting, and, unfortunately, also kind of depressing.
I really liked that article, and I think he's right in some ways--I read a lot less longer stuff since I got my laptop, for instance. I mean, I know I have ADD, but I used to just plow through magazines and books, and now I find it's harder.
That and the whole "knowledge isn't wisdom" thing.
I got Twitter about a month ago, reluctantly, after I had decided I hated it because of all the Tweet reports on my LJ. However, I am finding that I really, really love it for basic stream-of-consciousness type things because, most of the time, those things get lost and never make it to a livejournal post and they are the very things that help me to know someone better or understand more about what their days are like. Reading something like "hat head", "why is it that whenever I'm not in a hurry I have an instant bus catch?", and "danced around naked in my apartment until I saw there were workers on the roof at the next building over" are all just so interesting and amusing to me.
What's interesting to me, is that sometimes I feel weird posting things on both facebook and LJ because there's crossover...but there's also people on each one that aren't on the other.
If I add a picture to flickr, and FB, and post it to LJ, there's some people who will see it three times!
So I've been wary of having yet another way of being accidentally redundant. I'm hoping to keep my twitters to short things that wouldn't make it to either other site.
But then, facebook's status updates are only a line as well! So what goes where?
My facebook isn't connected to my cell, but my twitter is--it'll be fun to post from my phone. :^)
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Date: 2009-03-30 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 12:01 am (UTC)Plus, a lot of my Lj friends are twitter people anyway, so it would be redundant.
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Date: 2009-03-31 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 12:39 pm (UTC)But, the whole point of twitter is that it's a place to say tiny things all day long if you want, and most of them are just too meaningless to put on LJ. Even facebook, I tend to reserve for stuff of more substance than the kind of thing that would go on twitter.
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Date: 2009-03-31 01:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 06:00 am (UTC)It's really interesting, and, unfortunately, also kind of depressing.
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Date: 2009-03-31 12:37 pm (UTC)That and the whole "knowledge isn't wisdom" thing.
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Date: 2009-03-31 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 12:03 am (UTC)I had a coworker at my last place who would say things like, "I hate _____ with the burning fire of a thousand suns."
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Date: 2009-03-31 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:07 am (UTC)If I add a picture to flickr, and FB, and post it to LJ, there's some people who will see it three times!
So I've been wary of having yet another way of being accidentally redundant. I'm hoping to keep my twitters to short things that wouldn't make it to either other site.
But then, facebook's status updates are only a line as well! So what goes where?
My facebook isn't connected to my cell, but my twitter is--it'll be fun to post from my phone. :^)
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Date: 2009-03-31 06:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 12:40 pm (UTC)