Twitter seems so one-sided though, so hard to have a conversation with anyone. And so short! I really miss people having more in-depth conversations about meaningful things. What people twitter about seems much more shallow/meaningless than what I have seen the exact same people write about on LJ or even facebook. :(
To be fair, I don't think it's a stretch to see the rise of Twitter as a "race to the bottom" of sorts--fundamentally it isn't all that different from other systems that preceded it. The only thing it does differently is impose a limit on how much people can type, which has far-reaching effects on how people use it, which is the closest thing it has to innovation.
I see its success as a matter of "screw featureful--let's deliberately limit the available features and crowdsource innovation!" And that's exactly what its users did--the developers simply looked at common user practices and formalized them, instead of trying to dictate use cases for them.
The biggest shortcoming is that it's not a good platform at all if you actually want to have a real conversation with someone. Generally if an exchange looks like it's going to get long, I'll IM the person instead of continuing it on Twitter, which solves the problem but introduces record fragmentation. So it's a trade-off. *shrug*
Happy birthday! I'm still watching, in case you wanted to know if there was anyone out there.
Twitter...I don't want to use it because I don't want to have to be plugged in constantly to know what's going on. It's too rapid-fire for my liking. Its professional applications are cool, though.
There are some things that can't be expressed in a tweet, though I do often find myself not LJing because I've already said everything on Twitter.
I wonder how far back Twitter is willing to remember? One of the things I like about LJ is that I can go back to high school and remember who I was then.
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happy birthday!!! :)
Twitter seems so one-sided though, so hard to have a conversation with anyone. And so short! I really miss people having more in-depth conversations about meaningful things. What people twitter about seems much more shallow/meaningless than what I have seen the exact same people write about on LJ or even facebook. :(
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I see its success as a matter of "screw featureful--let's deliberately limit the available features and crowdsource innovation!" And that's exactly what its users did--the developers simply looked at common user practices and formalized them, instead of trying to dictate use cases for them.
The biggest shortcoming is that it's not a good platform at all if you actually want to have a real conversation with someone. Generally if an exchange looks like it's going to get long, I'll IM the person instead of continuing it on Twitter, which solves the problem but introduces record fragmentation. So it's a trade-off. *shrug*
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Twitter...I don't want to use it because I don't want to have to be plugged in constantly to know what's going on. It's too rapid-fire for my liking. Its professional applications are cool, though.
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I wonder how far back Twitter is willing to remember? One of the things I like about LJ is that I can go back to high school and remember who I was then.
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