Basically, you know the Status update-field on FaceBook (or any other itty-bitty text-message sized social networking infobit)? If you think you'll actually want to bother cranking those out on their own, and if you think folks would actually want to see/read them, then yes.
If you're the sort of person who feels that anything under 160 characters isn't really worth mentioning internetilly, then no.
I'd probably never have anything interesting to say, and if it were interesting it would also be undecipherable. :) I mainly want to follow Adam Savage and Amanda Palmer, but one day, when I'm a famous author... ::looks dreamily off into space::
The only two Twitter accounts I follow that actively made me want to join Twitter in the first place are Roger Ebert's (http://twitter.com/ebertchicago) and AV CLUB regular commenter ZODIAC M0THERFUCKER (http://twitter.com/ZODIAC_MF), who is the only person I've ever known to turn all-caps shouting into a work of unintentional surrealist art. My favorite tweet? "HOLY SHIT ORANGES ARE A FUCKING HASSLE."
I started, er, tweeting! All in haiku! wonko_the_sane at your service. (And you are? Never mind. I shall already have searched and possibly found by the time you read this.)
Twitter's fun - it's sort of like the way you talk to people when you're concentrating on something else. I like being in contact with my friends in different states without the expectations of instant messaging or something. And I also love seeing the photos people post (and posting my own).
I'm here on Twitter. Let me know if you sign up so I can follow you. :)
I like the way you phrase that. You know, there are pro comments and con comments and two neutral comments... I'm thinking I might bite, but I have to time my Internet use so I don't go forgetting that I'm a mom. I think it might help me practise being concise, which is something I need to improve upon in my writing (and conversation.)
Yeah, see, this is what I'm thinking - I'll either never use it or spend too much time on it and miss life. At the same time, I want to follow certain other people (see above) and posting on twitter could potentially improve my writing style - counter-intuitive, I know, but possible.
Argh. I think I might try it. I can always quit if it doesn't work out. Hah! Like I haven't said that many times before. :)
I'm against it. It tends to encourage people to post their brain farts. "Yum, tacos for lunch." "Waiting for the bus." "Lost my earring." "Had a great bowel movement just now." Who cares?!?!?! It rots the brain. Useless info overload. Like too many fat free cookies: not as satisfying as one of The Real Thing.
Just because something exists and "everyone is doing it" doesn't mean it's worth the time.
Those are all excellent points. I wouldn't wind up doing those things, though, because I'm pretentious and a perfectionist and have a preferred aesthetic that doesn't involve discussions about poo (except with my seven-year-old, when necessary.) I responded to other comments above about why I'm thinking about it and why it's a double-edged sword (you know, I never got that metaphor, because aren't all swords double-edged? I mean, I guess scimitars might not be, but you can't very well stab someone with something that's only sharp on one side, right?)
I think I might try it, and if I feel my soul being sucked out of my body (Facebook tugs at it, but to no avail) I'll quit.
I can't help but feel a bit frightened as I go forth into the insanity.
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Basically, you know the Status update-field on FaceBook (or any other itty-bitty text-message sized social networking infobit)? If you think you'll actually want to bother cranking those out on their own, and if you think folks would actually want to see/read them, then yes.
If you're the sort of person who feels that anything under 160 characters isn't really worth mentioning internetilly, then no.
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to post solely in haiku;
expressive, succinct.
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I whole-heartedly support the Haiku-Twitter notion, though!
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and those who read poetry
are used to their use.
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::looks dreamily off into space::
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wonko_the_sane at your service. (And you are? Never mind. I shall already have searched and possibly found by the time you read this.)
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I'm here on Twitter. Let me know if you sign up so I can follow you. :)
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I think it might help me practise being concise, which is something I need to improve upon in my writing (and conversation.)
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Argh. I think I might try it. I can always quit if it doesn't work out. Hah! Like I haven't said that many times before. :)
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I'm against it. It tends to encourage people to post their brain farts. "Yum, tacos for lunch." "Waiting for the bus." "Lost my earring." "Had a great bowel movement just now." Who cares?!?!?! It rots the brain. Useless info overload. Like too many fat free cookies: not as satisfying as one of The Real Thing.
Just because something exists and "everyone is doing it" doesn't mean it's worth the time.
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I responded to other comments above about why I'm thinking about it and why it's a double-edged sword (you know, I never got that metaphor, because aren't all swords double-edged? I mean, I guess scimitars might not be, but you can't very well stab someone with something that's only sharp on one side, right?)
I think I might try it, and if I feel my soul being sucked out of my body (Facebook tugs at it, but to no avail) I'll quit.
I can't help but feel a bit frightened as I go forth into the insanity.
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that resistance is futile,
and now it is proved.
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