What the F is the point? seriously.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW ?

 im eating oatmeal now...................... whoopy !!!!!

With conventional social networking sites allowing their users to filter who can view their page, stalking has become increasingly difficult.

Twitter is the answer.

Originally posted by SmurfMagic

What the F is the point? seriously.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW ?

 im eating oatmeal now...................... whoopy !!!!!

I don't know.  I think some of it has to do with the innate human desire for attention.

Originally posted by SmurfMagic

 im eating oatmeal now...................... whoopy !!!!!

 

Ok, but what are you doing now? 

You could've asked what was the point of Twitter, on Twitter.

This is annoying feature of Facebook and MySpace too. I never update my mood, status, feeling, or whatever the sites want to label it. I never care to see what anyone else is doing either.

I ask my friends why they feel the need to update their profiles with "going to class", "studying", "sleeping", "at work", etc. Do they really think anyone cares? They say they do it for themselves. They say they find it fun. I believe they have delusion of grandeur, thinking that they have fans or people who care about their state at every moment.

The whole thing reminds me of when I created my very first web site back in 1998 or 1999. It was a crummy web site. No one visited it. Yet I worked on it and posted on it everyday. I convinced myself that I probably some visitors. Even if I didn't I wanted to keep it up to date just in case someone did visit.

The information I created went to waste, it's all gone now and I doubt anyone ever read or appreciated any of the work I did. Not that it should have been appreciated, it was mostly worthless information that you could have been obtained elsewhere and in a better format. The only good that came of my time was that I learned some new skills (web design, graphics editing, HTML, CSS).

Originally posted by SmurfMagic

What the F is the point? seriously.

I agree on the twitter thing.  I have twitter and find it pointless.  Facebook is pretty cool.  An old girlfriend from high school found me after 40 years, plus a few male friends too.

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

Originally posted by SmurfMagic

What the F is the point? seriously.

 

Lmao

::shrugs::  I dunno...people just do it.    We're creatures of fads.    Personally I just don't get it.

i'm starting to dislike twitter... there are a bunch of random people following me and spamming my email boxes.. so annoying

Originally posted by JiuJitsu

i'm starting to dislike twitter... there are a bunch of random people following me and spamming my email boxes.. so annoying

You mean something like you just did here?

Everything in this thread is TWEET worthy! 140 characters or less, prone to only interest only 1% of people, so if you had 1,000 followers, that's a decent conversation started.

Really, it makes no sense to criticize Twitter when its essentially no different than what anyone does here everytime they start a new thread or respond to one. You conversate, and exclusively with strangers.

Here's a cool site that's in beta: www.bingtweets.com It does Bing searches and Twitter searches simultaneously. So for the political heads like myself who race to post the most recent bit of damning evidence against Republicans or Democrats, there's instant fuel from Twitter and Bing alike.

I think the above is a good display of how organic Twitter is and how you might actually find dialog you'd be interested in; whether you're searching for the latest patch notes for your video card or opinion on an appliance you're about to purchase. Because after all, people come to these types of boards for those types of small but self-valued conversations; someones eBaying and fielding comments on their tattoo currently for example.

Yes, you can be creepy, head to the mall with your Twitterberry application, search for your mall's name in trending topics and find a multitude of people tweeting about what they're doing in that mall; but it also has practical uses, though no less stalkerish, to find out interesting things. For example, by occupation I have to attend a lot of IT, UX and social media related conferences, and during 'em I'll often load my Twitter client up with what other people are doing so I have instant feedback of what labs are interesting, overly busy, etc.

It's just a medium that has practcal uses; plain and simple. You can cling to it so much that you learn that its raining via a tweet before you actually notice a rapt against your window, or you can use it as necessary to find out useful thoughts only when you want them.

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Originally posted by Ihmotepp

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Originally posted by SmurfMagic

 im eating oatmeal now...................... whoopy !!!!!
 

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Ok, but what are you doing now? 

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I wonder the same! And that shirt posted above was fucking epic, definitely saving it.