already written

[icecreamemperor]

I was thinking about writing a poem, when I realized that the poem I was thinking of writing had mostly already been written by Lorca. So then I was going to just link to the poem, but of course I couldn't find it anywhere in the right translation. And then I didn't feel like typing it out on Facebook, so why not here, where at least a slightly

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[taxi]

It's an interesting idea. I wonder how I would use Twitter or Facebook. I suspect it would be very frustrating for me. But who knows!

[icecreamemperor]

My FB usage is very utilitarian, it doesn't really have anything to recommend it as a medium. Twitter is interesting; I only really convinced myself to get into it by treating it as a sort of word salad outlet, esp. once I realized I could text twitter from my phone (like straight-up SMS), which meant it was something I could do while lying in bed unable to sleep.

Then eventually it sort of morphed into a bit of a lj-surrogate, with much teenage emoting and frustrating impulses towards consistency and 'brand' (for lack of a better word) -- and lately there are some new friends who I only really interact with via twitter, so it has taken on more of a social/actual-communication dimension, which it is Very Terrible at. This is part of what prompted this line of questioning for me; how the more like a real thing Twitter became, the more I wanted it to be like livejournal -- longer, thoughtful writing, private commenting, etc -- and the more obviously it was not.