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There seems to have been a thing on livejournal of late where people have been posting in reaction to Twitter and facebook, or posting substantive updates, and listing Twitter and facebook as the reason - essentially revolting against the short, impersonal nature of said.
Me, I like them. I'm not arguing in favor of them - the reasons people have raised for not liking them are all valid. I'm just saying: I like them.
I have this journal, which I never update, and a blog which I simailarly ignore. Twitter, though, I'm always on. Rather than go into any more unecessary detail, I'll just copy and paste the thing I put on my poor neglected blog a week or three back, which I think explains my point of view well enough...
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Here, have I mentioned that, like everyone else, I'm doing the Twitter thing that all the kids are into?
While at first I didn't get the point (I believe my exact words were "Wait, a place for you to upload life-updatey stuff that's even more pointless than the extant blogging technology? Why God why?" Only with more swears...) but thanks to my old Brain Stab compadre Josh - who pointed it out on his own Twitter feed - I do: "it's Livejournal for people who don't give a shit anymore."
I mean, I came home tonight with three ideas for blog posts relating humourous things that had happened at school today, but when I sat down to type them up here I realised that each of them could be summed up in fewer than 140 characters, so rather than spending a while crafting them and making them worth reading as blog entries, I could put them on Twitter and use the time and effort I saved to stare blankly into the middle distance...
So, will hop backwards and forwards between here and there, depending on whether my life can be summed up in three sentence or not. (Hint: it usually can be.)
Me, I like them. I'm not arguing in favor of them - the reasons people have raised for not liking them are all valid. I'm just saying: I like them.
I have this journal, which I never update, and a blog which I simailarly ignore. Twitter, though, I'm always on. Rather than go into any more unecessary detail, I'll just copy and paste the thing I put on my poor neglected blog a week or three back, which I think explains my point of view well enough...
...
Here, have I mentioned that, like everyone else, I'm doing the Twitter thing that all the kids are into?
While at first I didn't get the point (I believe my exact words were "Wait, a place for you to upload life-updatey stuff that's even more pointless than the extant blogging technology? Why God why?" Only with more swears...) but thanks to my old Brain Stab compadre Josh - who pointed it out on his own Twitter feed - I do: "it's Livejournal for people who don't give a shit anymore."
I mean, I came home tonight with three ideas for blog posts relating humourous things that had happened at school today, but when I sat down to type them up here I realised that each of them could be summed up in fewer than 140 characters, so rather than spending a while crafting them and making them worth reading as blog entries, I could put them on Twitter and use the time and effort I saved to stare blankly into the middle distance...
So, will hop backwards and forwards between here and there, depending on whether my life can be summed up in three sentence or not. (Hint: it usually can be.)