Comments on: I’m a Twitter quitter

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:04:30 +0000

I facebook, but feel like I have nothing to say to Twitter. However, I wonder if Twitter may provide some good tools for work-related stuff in the future (specifically where teenagers are concerned.) I had a patient try to text (I think she was texting her boyfriend, not tweeting) through her first Pap exam – I had to draw the line and tell her to put down the damn phone.
I wish that I could blog, but can’t imagine that I’d have something to say on a regular basis. I journal online (semi-privately) but only write something blog-worthy every few months, it seems. I am jealous of those who can produce worthwhile writing so much more regularly.

By: Telephone systems

Telephone systems — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:14:31 +0000

i am trying to generate traffic on my sites from twitter and like to make new frds on facebook

not much into blogging though but still have few niche blogs

By: Quadelle

Quadelle — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:14:53 +0000

I found facebook very time consuming with all the extra gadgets and do-dads, so I cut down my use dramatically. But then I turned to Twitter. I get to pick up interesting information from a wider assortment of people than I have as friends on facebook.

I’m not funny (on facebook, twitter or my blog), but neither are most of the people I follow.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:32:54 +0000

There will always be a place for us bloggers, even those of us who have few followers. Tweeting is waterskiing; blogging is at least snorkeling, and occasionally deep-sea exploring.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:54:35 +0000

I’m one of those blackberry addicts. Most of the time people only see the top of my head as I’m bent over my crackberry. I’m waiting for the day that I find myself in the ER after having stepped in front of traffic in my blackberry haze. I picture myself sigining out AMA because I can not get phone service!

By: Chaz

Chaz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:57:02 +0000

I have about 200 Twitter “friends”, 95% of whom were strangers when we started following each other. We connected on Twitter because we found each other’s posts interesting. I have now met a couple of them in person, have Facebook relationships with a couple, and have email blog relationships with a couple. All this in 5 months. I have learned many things from them, taught them some things, and have enjoyed many laughs.

Twitter is simply a communication medium. It’s what we say, and to whom, that matters. And what we do after we start conversing matters the most. I am delighted to have made connections based purely on mutual interests. That would not have happened without Twitter. The new connections have enriched my life.

Like any tool, Twitter is what you make of it. If you can’t find a way to use it that works for you, don’t use it. I find that most of the dismissive criticism does not in fact reflect what Twitter offers me.

By: Accidental Olympian

Accidental Olympian — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:10:22 +0000

Facebook and I get along like pees and carrots. Twitter blows my mind. The idea that you can follow people like Tina Fey is a lovely feature, but checking in constantly to Tina Fey’s inner thoughts as well as the rest of the WORLD every few seconds hurts my brain. Who has that much time to keep up with ALL THOSE DAMN TWITTER POSTS?

By: Ali B.

Ali B. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:42:05 +0000

That sounds snotty, so I must clarify that there actually is no Angie Botavis. But seriously, the quiz thing is outta control.

By: Ali B.

Ali B. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:39:34 +0000

Weighing in to say that Facebook and Twitter feel like two totally different things to me. Facebook is social, twitter is news. There are a few pithy non-newsy types that I follow, but for the most part, the value of twitter is that I can get real-time news streams about very specific issues. Much of it is noise, but I have found great links that I wouldn’t have found any other way.

Facebook is great for connecting with old friends, and I’ve even used it to hunt down babysitters and people I need to connect with for work purposes, but quizzes kind of ruined the experience for me – all I ever get in my feed is quiz updates from people I barely spoke to in high school. I don’t actually care what kind of dark creature Angie Botavis is.

By: Cell phones and the Purple Bubble : EphBlog

Cell phones and the Purple Bubble : EphBlog — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:56 +0000

[...] On the other other hand, there are times when I would be fine with people not being able to find me. In the age of the cell phone, it is almost impossible to be unfindable. If I leave my phone off, or fail to pick up or return a call relatively quickly, I expect that the person trying to reach me is liable to get a little annoyed. For the sake of maintaining amicable social relations, I feel obligated to keep the phone/email/messaging device on at all times. Twitter makes this pressure to always-be-connected even worse, as noted by Jennifer Mattern: As one friend observed, “If the people in my life need to know what is happening in my life every 20 seconds, there is something very wrong, either with them, or with me.”[...] [...]