Grumpy

[cjsmith]

So tired. Things I have learned on this trip

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[cjsmith]

Good point. There's air in the luggage compartment.

[hitchhiker]

hashtags are the new emoticons!

[cjsmith]

I sure hope not. They're big and unwieldy, often jumbled haphazardly in a pile that ends up being longer than the status they accompany. ("Ugly" probably counts for nothing; every old curmudgeon thinks the world was more aesthetically pleasing in his youth. But I may as well mention the ugliness just to be complete.)

[hitchhiker]

i'll grant you that :) they do, however, act as freeform tags akin to lj's 'current mood', if done right, which seems to be what their fb evolutionary niche will end up as.

[plymouth]

You're only young once... but you can be immature forever! :D

[cjsmith]

And I'm practicing now! :)

[tryslora]

...I think people who bathe in perfume are insufferable idiots who ought to be sent to sit with the smokers in a tiny room until they kill each other with odor.

Er. I might have opinions on the subject. *sighs*

You're on the east coast right now? I hope the trip improves...

[cjsmith]

Neither of them can smell anything any more, so it might be a long time in that tiny room. I guess they could all suffocate!

[gev]

Maybe it was a nightmare I had, but I'd swear I read that Facebook was actually going to USE hashtags. One upside: some sort of vaguely useful search, at which Facebook currently FAILS.

[cjsmith]

Facebook won't succeed with search unless they're willing to succeed with reliability, willing to save things for more than "as long as we feel like it this time", and willing to spend some real effort making sure their code works. Hashtags won't do a thing for search capability unless they go into a system that has... well, search capability!