I don't see the point if you only have 5 followers (and all from work)!
https://twitter.com/LazyJayB
https://twitter.com/LazyJayB
Anyone else use twitter?
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Aaaand, bam! 
I have a hard time updating my LiveJournal every few weeks, so no, I don't feel a need to tell people what I'm doing every half hour. What would I say?
"Going to work now." "Sitting at my computer performing data entry." "Still performing data entry." "Entering NEW data now, yay!" "Waiting for the bus." "Going to class." "Writing papers for class now." "Going to bed, goodnight."
I'm fairly certain that people would not find this interesting. Plus I don't know anyone who would "subscribe" to read it, I don't really have that many online friends. And I'm not around the Internet all day so that's another obstacle.
It reminds me of my best friend from elementary/middle school. She went through this phase in 8th grade where she bought little notebooks and recorded EVERY single thing she did in them. She became obsessed with it. It was on her desk all day at school, she carried it with her everywhere. I don't know who she was writing these things for...no one ever read it but her. And I'm sure that even she never went back and read what she had previously written. So what was the point? Twitter feels like the same thing to me.
"Going to work now." "Sitting at my computer performing data entry." "Still performing data entry." "Entering NEW data now, yay!" "Waiting for the bus." "Going to class." "Writing papers for class now." "Going to bed, goodnight."
I'm fairly certain that people would not find this interesting. Plus I don't know anyone who would "subscribe" to read it, I don't really have that many online friends. And I'm not around the Internet all day so that's another obstacle.
It reminds me of my best friend from elementary/middle school. She went through this phase in 8th grade where she bought little notebooks and recorded EVERY single thing she did in them. She became obsessed with it. It was on her desk all day at school, she carried it with her everywhere. I don't know who she was writing these things for...no one ever read it but her. And I'm sure that even she never went back and read what she had previously written. So what was the point? Twitter feels like the same thing to me.
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Now following. https://twitter.com/sophietonks is me, if anyone else is on Twitter.
As of a couple weeks ago, I do. I use it as a catchall for little comments and vents I don't feel really merit their own entry in my LJ and have LoudTwitter post them to my LJ as one entry at the end of the day if I've made any. Of course, I haven't used it much lately, but I've been pretty busy recently.
http://twitter.com/seariderfalcon
http://twitter.com/seariderfalcon
Twitter seems to be an absolutely useless application, IMO, unless you're completely self-obsessed and have some sort of fantasy that other people care about what you're doing every second of the day.
It may have some practical business uses (I know some airlines and airports, for example, will send out alerts about weather or delays via twitter.) But overall, it just seems kinda stupid to me.
It may have some practical business uses (I know some airlines and airports, for example, will send out alerts about weather or delays via twitter.) But overall, it just seems kinda stupid to me.
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I tried it for a while, but yeah... I've got an LJ. I don't see the point of Twitter.
I just like the fact someone named Byrdman uses Twitter. 
I don't know. I find it's nice to have if you want to throw a random thought, observation or question out into the world. It's especially useful if you're out and see something interesting, since you can just text an update to Twitter which you might otherwise forget.
Two people at work use Twitter. One of them started posting work related information and shortly thereafter the company published a revision to the employee handbook.
Quite frankly, most of this "Web 2.0" social scene stuff seems incredibly uninteresting to me. Talk about an entire generation of self-important assholes screaming "look at me" as if I'm supposed to give a shit. Most bloggers are an obscene cross between a douche bag and a moron.
I've got a Facebook page I hardly use, I go to Digg and Reddit a few times a week just to see some random articles that might interest me but I stay away from the comment sections because I value my IQ.
Articles about "25 Social Web Apps You've GOTTA HAVE" make me ill. No one needs 25 apps for anything. I think a lot of people are so busy telling other people every detail about their lives they've failed to notice they are completely uninteresting because they spend most of the time in front of their computer.
I've got a Facebook page I hardly use, I go to Digg and Reddit a few times a week just to see some random articles that might interest me but I stay away from the comment sections because I value my IQ.
Articles about "25 Social Web Apps You've GOTTA HAVE" make me ill. No one needs 25 apps for anything. I think a lot of people are so busy telling other people every detail about their lives they've failed to notice they are completely uninteresting because they spend most of the time in front of their computer.
At least twitter is pretty ignorable. There are one or two people that I follow that I genuinely care about what they have to say, though.
We also use Yammer in-house (sort of a corporate version of twitter). We have one older guy who is adamant that it's a waste of time and won't follow it even though we use it extensively in the office.
We also use Yammer in-house (sort of a corporate version of twitter). We have one older guy who is adamant that it's a waste of time and won't follow it even though we use it extensively in the office.
I was thinking about signing up with the service. Are any of you dying to know what kind of cereal I'm having tomorrow morning? How about news updates about my next oil change? C'mon, everybody!
There's an app you can get on Facebook that allows your twitter feed
to replace your Facebook status, that way you can have both at once.
