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HolyMoly 
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 Posted: January 13 2013 at 09:35 |
 The Dark Elf wrote:
The words "Twitter" and "Tweet" sound annoying. There are far too many real-life things to be annoyed about, so I ignore artificial annoyances.
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Very true. The name alone puts me off. It's almost insulting to have such concepts interrupt my professional life. (Yes, it's not just used for fun anymore).
Edited by HolyMoly - January 13 2013 at 09:37
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 09:40 |
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So you are basically living life like a real pro now? If so, could you teach me to tie my shoe laces in a more efficient way then?
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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HolyMoly
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 09:43 |
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Shoe-tying technology is still pretty primitive.
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My other avatar is a Porsche
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 09:45 |
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Still, seems infinitely more substantial and meaningful than the art of tweeting.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 12:22 |
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The past is prolog. The tweet is for twits.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 12:46 |
I am indeed a twitterer and I resent that!  I think its fun and interesting. I follow sports and news on Twitter and I often find amusing stuff there. I sense a certain snobbism around these parts - but each to their own.
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Dean
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 13:01 |
akamaisondufromage wrote:
I am indeed a twitterer and I resent that! I think its fun and interesting. I follow sports and news on Twitter and I often find amusing stuff there. I sense a certain snobbism around these parts - but each to their own. |
Snobbism?
How quaint.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 13:18 |
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I agree I was being flippant and snobby, and I regret it.
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 13:31 |
Thank you. Now all I need is a personal apology from everyone else on this thread! 
Actually, most of the opinions on this thread were expressed by me before I started 'Tweeting' and in many cases I am sure they are all true. There are certainly more Bieber fans on Twitter than Progaholics. I think it can be whatever you want it to be.
#quaintwhoyoucallingquaint?
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Moogtron III
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 14:50 |
Dean wrote:
akamaisondufromage wrote:
I am indeed a twitterer and I resent that! I think its fun and interesting. I follow sports and news on Twitter and I often find amusing stuff there. I sense a certain snobbism around these parts - but each to their own. |
Snobbism?
How quaint. |
Yes, quite preposterous, I'd say.
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Dean
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 15:17 |
When I first joined the internet (20 years ago) the extent of what we could say and what we could see were limited by technology, to me Twit
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Dean
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 15:17 |
ter is a throwback to those times of limited bandwidth, storage capacity and data-rates, yet manages to convey less information hence my “Ho
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Dean
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 15:17 |
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stonebeard
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 01:01 |
This is a bit funny to me. You guys do realize you're just marginalizing yourselves by avoiding the progress of social media, right? Everybody and their grandma has a Facebook account now, and with anything that has such a broad and diverse userbase, it has now become mostly sh*t. At least with Twitter there isn't a stigma to deleting and avoiding the hell out of people who annoy you. And I'm definitely not a Twitter fanatic. I have like 20ish tweets, almost all in legible English. It's really not a bit deal.
There are avenues for spilling loads of useless wordw**k all over the Internet, ProgArchives being the least famous of them. For concise thoughts and neat little things, Twitter can be nice.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 02:15 |
stonebeard wrote:
You guys do realize you're just marginalizing yourselves by avoiding the progress of social media, right?
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Not avoiding. I've tried out social media. I'm on Facebook. I read Tweets (I don't feel like to writing some). Just realising that I'm not a big fan of it.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 02:19 |
HolyMoly wrote:
The Dark Elf wrote:
The words "Twitter" and "Tweet" sound annoying. There are far too many real-life things to be annoyed about, so I ignore artificial annoyances.
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Very true. The name alone puts me off. It's almost insulting to have such concepts interrupt my professional life. (Yes, it's not just used for fun anymore). |
I remember Ian Anderson made a joke about the word "tweeting" once: "What is it that they do? ... Oh! ... They tweet! ...They tweet. Sounds like an old man tweeting to another old man."
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someone_else
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 02:58 |
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No history with tweet whatsoever, no future either.
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zeqexes
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 04:35 |
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I have a twitter but don't use it.
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Alitare
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 05:35 |
I hate social media. But then again I also hate the internet. I never once made a twitter page or even read one.
Or, more specifically: I love what the internet can do for me, but I hate what it can allow me to do to myself.
I think Mark Twain once said that, verbatim.
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Dean
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 05:40 |
stonebeard wrote:
This is a bit funny to me. You guys do realize you're just marginalizing yourselves by avoiding the progress of social media, right? Everybody and their grandma has a Facebook account now, and with anything that has such a broad and diverse userbase, it has now become mostly sh*t. At least with Twitter there isn't a stigma to deleting and avoiding the hell out of people who annoy you. And I'm definitely not a Twitter fanatic. I have like 20ish tweets, almost all in legible English. It's really not a bit deal.
There are avenues for spilling loads of useless wordw**k all over the Internet, ProgArchives being the least famous of them. For concise thoughts and neat little things, Twitter can be nice. |
I'm a long-haired, 55 year old Progger, how much more marginalised can I get and how social do I need to be to find inanity by people I bare
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