I promise I am not posting as multiple people.

ha ha ha. I don’t get it either.

It’s like a repository for garbage that, if emailed out to everyone you know, would have people blocking your pointless spammy crap. But don’t worry: now you can just share on Twitter!

Look, if some shard of information isn’t worth even a quick email (or Facebook message, or txt…) i don’t want to read about it. Thus the thought of reading someone’s Twitter makes me shudder.

Ghey.

Die Twitter Die.

I hate knowing what “sexting” is. Just die.

but it reminds me a schtick some comedian did back in the day (was it Dennis Miller?) where he said everything is changing to save us time, that all the technological advances are there with the assumption that now you have more free time, no long hand letters, instant email, etc… and it is assumed that all this free time is going to be put to some noble use, when in reality we do nothing with it, we fill it with more distractions… nobody takes that free time and learns about Zen Buddhism or whatever, they just keep distracting themselves… and this is my problem with social networking, but I do think it is a double edged sword, with benefits that you overlook.

One does not need to be a luddite to be efficient and happy, one just needs to be responsible with the tools they got.

I wrote this blog post about it just a couple of weeks ago actually, which actually inspired some of my friends to take a break from social networking for a couple of weeks.

I have a lot to say and some rebuttals to make in these comments, but no time now. The article will suffice until tomorrow.

Now with Twitter, I’m finding that my blogging is a little more personal again. I don’t think Twitter has changed the way I write – it’s just another avenue for sharing. If I don’t want to share it, I don’t and if I want to keep something for myself, I do. No one needs to see the notes I keep on my phone, iTouch and notepad I always carry around in my bag but technology has allowed me to share more often than before. If people don’t want to listen, they don’t and vise versa.

I want to use it to hold onto thought fragments in my head, to capture the fleeting ideas, and sure I could just keep a notepad handy but twitter suffices.

marina, is it good that twitter replaces your blogging? so instead of writing longer, thought-out examinations, your just writing 150 character summarizations. it isn’t healthy. our ENglish writing forefathers are rolling over in their graves!!!!!

It’s probably not for everyone but it’s a super handy tool.

Similarly, the third-party clients for Twitter are much better than for most any other site. So if for whatever reason I can’t have FriendFeed/Facebook/whatever open in a browser, it’s much easier for me to keep tabs on Twitter than anything else, via Twitterfox or Twhirl or Tweetdeck. Maybe the very idea of being connected to people online turns you off – but I’d be that way anyway, even if Twitter didn’t exist. It’d just be harder.

And I don’t get why it’s not really communication. I talk about the same stuff on Twitter that I talk about in person, just with a broader range of people and with people who aren’t near me in person. And asynchronously.