In which she makes herself unpopular

[mousme]

Have I mentioned that I loathe Twitter?

It's almost as bad as the "status" thing on Facebook, except that it might possibly be worse, as you're supposed to update it all the &$#% time!

I cannot imagine anything more hateful to me, than to constantly have to tell people whatever random thing I'm doing precisely at this moment.

Maybe I'm just grumpy.

I'd rather get one thoughtful post every few days from a friend, rather than have a bunch of unrelated sentences and fragments dumped on me at the end of the day.

Comments

[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

You're not alone.

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

I'm okay with Twitter. And it's a personal thing, really.

In my case, there are some things that I'm mainly just whining about.

[amurphyhiscock.livejournal.com]

I hear you. The fragments drive me nuts. My exception is people who update with a statement like a succinct blog post, such as silly_imp has done here rather than posting their half of an ongoing conversation, the missing bits of which aren't included in the Twitter update so I have no idea what they're actually talking about. A collection of tweets like the ones in that example run very close to the brief "X Random Things Make A Post" lists that people use once in a while.

Twitter strikes me as very time-consuming. Not the actual posting, but the keeping up with everyone throwing sentences at one another all the time.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Reviewing agreement; badly drafted.

Seriously, though, could not agree with you more. I feel badly if I just post a short-by-my-standards update without much substance. Letting people know I just made a PB&J for lunch would make my head explode.

[jteethy.livejournal.com]

As Arin points out, there *are* a few folks who can Twitter effectively, but man... The rest is noise. As for Facebook, I would only consider using it for some specific project. I signed on for about ten minutes two years ago and the people I came across were either already friends on LJ or they were exactly the sort of high school acquaintances I expected to find on Facebook... you know, the ones that made me glad that high school was over.

[kiwano.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. I've been avoiding facebook pretty vehemently with the rationale that "four years of high school was quite enough for me thankyou". That said, I created a temporary one a while back to track someone down in search of a job. I also created a permanent one recently which serves only to squat my identity, should I ever become worth impersonating there, and to direct people to my actual website.

[sultrysong.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that I'm no fan of Twitter, but what I mean is that I'm no fan of twits using it. It's a really neat tool if it's treated as more than a place for ego updates.

Here's a couple of things that have come through my feed today (one of them is an update of my own):

Top court won't hear challenge of Canada-U.S. refugee pact http://tinyurl.com/d5kb7s

Laval threatens to withhold $1.64 million 2009 contribution to Montreal to operate the métro - claims its residents are overcharged on fares...

Canada's publishing trade show, book fair cancelled. http://tinyurl.com/d8bvar

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

BookExpo got CANCELLED?!! ARghghhhhhhhhhh!

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

I don't hate twitter, I just don't understand it and don't see how it can possibly work.

[pasley.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about Twitter, but from what little I've seen of it it seems rather pointless and self-indulgent . . . even more so than blogs, LJ's, Facebook and the like. But again, I don't know much about it.

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

no Twitter for me!

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

I've started just skimming Twitter posts. One friend makes a post that has most of that info in it before I get to read the tweets, anyway (I don't have Twitter and only see it if someone feeds it onto their LJ.) I suppose that she does this because she has people who follow her on Twitter who don't follow her on LJ, but then it gets fed to LJ, so I don't know. Another friend gives a blow-by-blow of his day. That's just very boring. All the rest save one or two are mostly half of a conversation and, well, that's just dull and frustrating. So, I only read them now if it's someone who doesn't really post otherwise.

I think there was an add-on or something where you could filter them out, but I don't know enough about that stuff to find it.