Re: Is someone trying to get you to do something you don't want to - screw them!jpallanFebruary 20 2009, 00:47:43 UTC
What happened to the failwhale?
I tweet some, but I'm really starting to get into Tumblr. Things that aren't really worth being introspective over, yet things that are too big to just keep on finding people to share it with. It doesn't go. So yeah. LiveJournal exists for my more contemplative modes, or a rush of guilt and a bunch of meaningless content. I do like BrightKite / Whrrl and I'm looking forward to more of the whole, "Hey, our friends are about a half mile from where we are. We have an hour, want to text and see if they're up for anything?"
At any rate, regarding Twitter as a whole, I agree with Ross Wollinsky.
In their own words, Twitter is “a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” Here’s the thing: Most of the time, my answer to that question is going to be “working,” “dropping a deuce,” or “getting loaded under a highway overpass
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I am glad you are having less computer troublemaxwellgrantFebruary 20 2009, 05:22:52 UTC
I learned so much from your commment (one, I didn't know you knew jc!); what great points like "I don't want my family knowing all I am doing!!" - I like Tumblr a lot, too. I want to check out BrightKite / Whrrl - I don't think I been there. What did you think of Facebook?
Wow, I must be tired - it took me THIS long, like an hour with the browser open before I got to reply here and write these words to remember what a failwhale is. Thanks and Ciao!
Re: I am glad you are having less computer troublejpallanFebruary 20 2009, 06:57:36 UTC
Facebook has long since jumped the shark.
It was really nice when it was a consolidated, centralised system centred around each school. You could look up the IM info of people in your history lecture to get the notes, photos of you doing body shots weren't handed over to corporate recruiters.
I understand why they brought in outside developers - because a million code monkeys with a million laptops are necessary to come up with the works of Shakespeare 2.0 (in alpha release). However, in so doing, they eliminated the cachet of being on Facebook.
By the time your mother can not only view your photos of doing body shots presented to her in horror by the dean of students by some snitch (please to be seeing Oz and The Wire), but display her own mini-spring break photos ... dead
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I thought you might find this image amusing -
it's their technical difficulties page!
http://static.twitter.com/images/please_fix.png
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I tweet some, but I'm really starting to get into Tumblr. Things that aren't really worth being introspective over, yet things that are too big to just keep on finding people to share it with. It doesn't go. So yeah. LiveJournal exists for my more contemplative modes, or a rush of guilt and a bunch of meaningless content. I do like BrightKite / Whrrl and I'm looking forward to more of the whole, "Hey, our friends are about a half mile from where we are. We have an hour, want to text and see if they're up for anything?"
At any rate, regarding Twitter as a whole, I agree with Ross Wollinsky.
In their own words, Twitter is “a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” Here’s the thing: Most of the time, my answer to that question is going to be “working,” “dropping a deuce,” or “getting loaded under a highway overpass ( ... )
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what great points like "I don't want my family knowing all I am doing!!" -
I like Tumblr a lot, too. I want to check out BrightKite / Whrrl - I don't think I been there. What did you think of Facebook?
Wow, I must be tired - it took me THIS long, like an hour with the browser open before I got to reply here and write these words to remember what a failwhale is. Thanks and Ciao!
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It was really nice when it was a consolidated, centralised system centred around each school. You could look up the IM info of people in your history lecture to get the notes, photos of you doing body shots weren't handed over to corporate recruiters.
I understand why they brought in outside developers - because a million code monkeys with a million laptops are necessary to come up with the works of Shakespeare 2.0 (in alpha release). However, in so doing, they eliminated the cachet of being on Facebook.
By the time your mother can not only view your photos of doing body shots presented to her in horror by the dean of students by some snitch (please to be seeing Oz and The Wire), but display her own mini-spring break photos ... dead ( ... )
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