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ubergeek2012

Posting

May 15, 2009 14:36

So, as you might have noticed if you're reading this, I suck at updating this journal. I think about stuff, and then never get around to actually typing it out ( Read more... )

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gillan May 15 2009, 18:54:44 UTC

I don't mind Twitter at all. It does become grating, though, to see all these half-conversations totally out of context:

@brodude lol i know right
@hambone did she really say that?
@xamses don't worry it'll clear up in a week

etc. etc.

greyorm May 15 2009, 19:04:28 UTC

I despise Twitter and find it incredibly annoying.

ubergeek2012 May 15 2009, 20:08:57 UTC

That's the boat I've been on for a while. I just thought it might have value as a micro-posting tool.

greyorm May 15 2009, 21:41:07 UTC

For the latter, it could. I don't know. I'm not attracted to the "micro-blogging" idea personally so I never really tested it out.

luciddreams May 15 2009, 19:30:42 UTC

Okay, I'll be honest. I really hate the fact that people are cross posting their tweets to their LJ's. As Gillan said, it's annoying to read a bunch of half-convo's out of context.

I mean, sure... It's their journal, they can do what they want & more power to them, but I don't have to like it or read it. So I don't.

I'll read an actual post, but I don't read tweets.

~Alan

ubergeek2012 May 15 2009, 20:07:56 UTC

I was looking at it as more of a micro-posting tool. Is it more of a hybrid of journal and IM then? I wasn't even thinking of it as a tool for conversations.

luciddreams May 15 2009, 20:11:53 UTC

That's honestly all I ever see it used as.

If they were actually Micro-Updates, then I'd read them.

konoichi May 15 2009, 19:38:50 UTC

Come join the Twitter hive!

I leave my tweets off of LJ to keep the content on each separate, but I don't mind tweet LJ posts if they're behind a cut.

From my experience... innocentsheep May 18 2009, 02:02:11 UTC

I started using Twitter for the same reason that you want too. It's alright, and can be fun for a while. One thing though... LJ tweets are very annoying, since it doesn't filter out @replies.

If you have friends/family who use Facebook over LJ, I highly recommend Twitter. I don't use Facebook very often anymore, but there is a Facebook application that updates your status based on your Tweets. This does filter out @replies, so there's no out of context posts. I get some comments from Facebook based on my Tweets. :D