Comments | kevinduran: Hey Twitter People.

kevinduran

Hey Twitter People.

Mar 19, 2009 16:15

Some of you have created a filter that filters out us non-Twitter people so that your Twitter posts don't show up for us. I can't thank you enough. It'd be nice if the rest of you Twitter people could do the same... a lot of us don't have the time to read (or care) about your Twitterin'. If we all wanted to read your Twittin', we'd be on Twitter ( Read more... )

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bfirrera March 19 2009, 21:26:04 UTC

I'm not really sure how to do that, necessarily, but at least I've been putting them behind a cut...

...sorry, Kevin.

I'm carrying on conversations on Twitter, but I'm still at least reading/replying her on LJ if not posting so much (mostly because I've not had much to post beyond links to youtube videos...being unemployed makes the day-to-day a little boring).

kevinduran March 19 2009, 22:26:53 UTC

It's easy to do... just go up and click on "Friends", and then go to "Manage Custom Groups." From there you can create a new list, and you just add the friends you want to. Then when you make a post, you can select that list from a pull-down menu and it will only post to those people.

I have six different filter groups for different reasons.

sibertater March 19 2009, 22:46:13 UTC

I've recently done a complete douche of my friends list. It felt good. Seriously? I don't care if you can take 30 self-portraits a day. Stop flooding my LJ with it.

I like this site because it's mine and I like to read who I like to read. I also don't care about your 14 children. Yes, you're the only one who thinks they're cute.

Sorry for the rant, I must have PMS today. I told a woman at REI that she had on a nice skirt...for a hooker. She told me that she wasn't sure if they carried Life Is Good shirts in my size. Who wears a tennis skirt to work, anyway?

kevinduran March 19 2009, 23:00:12 UTC

I think the point of Live Journal lies in the world "journal." We've all probably stretched the definition of that by posting links to videos, or whatever. There's only a handful of people on my friends list that actually WRITE anything now.

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sibertater March 19 2009, 22:43:27 UTC

OMFG! Thank you! Vicki just created a Twitter profile and I told her if that shit starts showing up on my LJ I'm defriending her.

I don't care to know that you're at the gas station taking a poo. No one needs to be this connected all the time.

Why do people bitch about cellphone GPS and the government watching your every move when they can just look at your FaceBook and Twitter? For the love of all that's Holy!

kevinduran March 19 2009, 22:57:19 UTC

I completely agree. I don't want anybody knowing the intricate details of my life. I barely care about them myself, why would I care about someone else's? Is going to Subway for lunch a reportable thing? So what if I just went to the bank machine? Who cares that I just bought cat food at Target? Big whoop that I just walked downstairs to fetch a beverage from my refrigerator ( ... )

bfirrera March 19 2009, 23:14:42 UTC

Different people use twitter differently.

I don't think I've ever posted the "where I'm having lunch" twitter with the exception of when I was posting from my Disney vacation (since I had a bunch of Disney fans on my Twitter (and on Facebook where my twitters are also sent as status updates for the most part).

Again, I use twitter mostly for conversation throughout the day (and news headlines sometimes faster than regular news or LJ)...

kevinduran March 19 2009, 23:26:26 UTC

Us non-Twitter people probably don't care how it's being used, just as long as it doesn't involve us.

scream4noreason March 20 2009, 01:20:47 UTC

I HATE twitter and regularly remove twitterers from my flist cos I cant stand to read it.I come to Lj for Lj not for twittering.

kevinduran March 20 2009, 02:34:20 UTC

That's what a lot of people think... I don't see the point of cross posting on LJ, but I don't see the point of Twitter, either.

annnettte March 20 2009, 14:51:42 UTC

I completely agree... if I wanted to know what the hell someone was tweeting about (public service announcement: tweeting should be left to the robins and sparrows, etc.!), I would be a Twitter USER; I don't need my lj littered with, "Look what great new technology I'm using!" Twitter people might as well post, "I made oatmeal in the microwave today!" "I drove a hybrid car today!" "I use a cell phone!" "I endorse plasma televisions!" or "Here is a list of the things my DVR recorded today!"

kevinduran March 20 2009, 14:57:51 UTC

It seems to mostly be guys, too.... I doubt we'd ever read something like "I just inserted a tampon!" from a girl.