I was talking to a friend of mine about why I don’t twitter. There are two reasons.
1. I am too wordy.
2. It would be redundant and boring.
But just in case you cared, this post is my Standard Twitter.
Sitting at desk.
Letting dog out.
Sitting at desk.
Letting dog in.
Bathroom break–why can’t I coordinate my bathroom break with the dogs?
Sitting at desk.
And there you have it. My Twittering.
I’ve got to say, I just don’t get Twitter. When I look at it, I can’t help feeling like it’s a blog aggregator that sucked out all the interesing things in every post and then threw them away, leaving only the most mundane and boring bits. Where’s the fun in that?
Loonytick, I’m with you.
I don’t get it. Then again, I’m not in the ‘out and about smartphone’ culture.
LOL, I didn’t get twitter either, but I’m twittering now. I *still* can’t tell you what’s so fun about it, but it is fun.
What badbadivy said! Adding badbadivy to my twitter friends 🙂
Thanks for adding me, Casey! 🙂
KC, if I really Twittered every single thing every day, my Twitter posts would look more like yours. Some days it feels like my whole life revolves around taking dogs in and out, heh.
Twitter is really kind of a silly program but there are things I do enjoy about it, like the other night when Ivy was out at a restaurant and Twittered that she was standing in line “behind some asshat”. I literally about fell over laughing. Moments like that are grand entertainment value!
I think there are kind of two kinds of Twitterers: ones that use it more as a mini-blog and ones that use it more as communication between individuals or among the whole group. I tend to fall in the mini-blogger category where most everyone else (that we know) tends to use for person-to-person or people-to-people communication. I’ve liked using it as a mini-blog type thing on those days when I don’t really have the time or inclination to sit down and write a whole real post, or am otherwise occupied and can’t.
Newscoma said she became a believer when that was how she found I’d been in the car wreck; for me, the turning point was when my mom expressed how glad she was to be able to “follow” me on my trip to Chicago and know I was OK, had arrived & departed wherever, etc.
I could really take it or leave it but I’m kind of enjoying having it. Especially now that Ivy’s Twittering – if I was paying for Twitter service, the entertainment value of Ivy’s Twitter posts would have made whatever I was paying worth it already, heh. 🙂
I made so much fun of Twitter. And then I Twittered. And … alas I like it.
I have no idea why.
Lynnster, you flatter me. 🙂 I kept wondering today if I was bugging everyone by Twittering every random thing that came along.
ya laugh until you get into it…i laughed, i guffawed, i fake twitter posted like the above, and then i tried it. the synergy of the community makes it worthwhile…’hanging’ with Paul Chenoweth and jaxn and lynnster and ivy and newcoma and ginger and kate’O and b-mo and brittney, et al is kinda fun.
Y’all, I’m NOT laughing at Twitter.
I’m just saying that I don’t see why or how I would do it since
a) I never do anything
and
b) I don’t have a smartphone
I don’t have a smartphone
You don’t have to have a phone tho. I update most of mine on the Web.
PS Bring a copy of the directions to Mack’s if you can – my printer has died 😦
No smartphone required Kat. I turned off the SMS notifications real quick. Check out http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific or http://proxi.griffintechnology.com/ if you’re running OS X 10.4 or later. I’m kind of partial to Proxi of course 🙂
Hell, Kat, I don’t even know what a smartphone is. Does this get me kicked out of the geekhood?
Assimilated!