Your history with tweet

bling unwashed, it is a one-way traffic from those who crave attention to those who feed off it and that is not socialising, that is a vicar

pidly nefarious domain of purile corporate adverting and asinine product promotion.

*heartily agrees with Stool Man's applause*

Dean wrote: 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

stonebeard wrote: Dean wrote: 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 Eh if you're satisfied by what you have and do by all means feel no pressure to change with things. But things do always change, and fast now. I'd rather engage in new technologies and trends in a non-vacuous way than grumble on the sidelines. Most of this thread reads like a get-off-my-lawn screed, and I'm not so quick to want to join in.

From a technological standpoint, I see nothing advantageous or intellectually stimulating in people tweeting out the mundanities of their lives, or worse, their inane opinions, or even worse than that, sending out an apology tweet for the inane opinion tweet they were obviously unable to censor because they were f*cking driving at the time.

no tweet, no fb

stonebeard wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: stonebeard wrote: Dean wrote: 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 Eh if you're satisfied by what you have and do by all means feel no pressure to change with things. But things do always change, and fast now. I'd rather engage in new technologies and trends in a non-vacuous way than grumble on the sidelines. Most of this thread reads like a get-off-my-lawn screed, and I'm not so quick to want to join in.  From a technological standpoint, I see nothing advantageous or intellectually stimulating in people tweeting out the mundanities of their lives, or worse, their inane opinions, or even worse than that, sending out an apology tweet for the inane opinion tweet they were obviously unable to censor because they were f*cking driving at the time. Not everyone on Twitter is Kim Kardashian or a complete idiot.

Yes, I am sure that is true; however, the preponderance of evidence I have seen indicates that nearly every time Twitter is mentioned it regards twits who tweet. Or in Kim Kardashian's case, tw*ts who tweet.


Edited by The Dark Elf - January 15 2013 at 22:04

Twitter is one big giant global electronic self-congratulatory circle jerk.