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OT - Twitter

2009-04-25 by MAinPsych@aol.com

The Saturday morning "grumpies":
 
First, MySpace (which I do find useful), then FaceBook (kinda on  the 
periphery but has enabled me to contact a few long-lost friends), and now  
Twitter (a big f***ing waste of time considering that I already have my friends'  
direct regular email addresses without having to maneuver through a another  
damned third-party site).
 
Typical Twitter examples:
"Woke up early, had spastic diarrhea, missed work, spent most of  the day 
keeping the porcelain altar warm."
"Barack Obama is a Statist, not a Federalist --  Duh!"
"Farted an real juicy one this morning just as I left the  elevator before 
a bunch of people got on - hilarious."
"I'd sure like the chance to rip out a few of Britney's hair  extentions, 
heh heh."
I can go to one of those banal AOL chat rooms if I want drivel like  this.
 
Wrote a message to a member, hit send, was asked if I  wanted to open or 
save the file.  NO, I WANT TO SEND THE BLOODY  MESSAGE!  I'll be fair and give 
it a month, but I'm beginning to feel more  like a Twatter than a Twitter.
 
You comments on Twitter?
 
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT - Twitter

2009-04-25 by Mike Dickson

http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm

MAinPsych@aol.com wrote:
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The Saturday morning "grumpies":
First, MySpace (which I do find useful), then FaceBook (kinda on the periphery but has enabled me to contact a few long-lost friends), and now Twitter (a big f***ing waste of time considering that I already have my friends' direct regular email addresses without having to maneuver through a another damned third-party site).
Typical Twitter examples:
"Woke up early, had spastic diarrhea, missed work, spent most of the day keeping the porcelain altar warm."
"Barack Obama is a Statist, not a Federalist -- Duh!"
"Farted an real juicy one this morning just as I left the elevator before a bunch of people got on - hilarious."
"I'd sure like the chance to rip out a few of Britney's hair extentions, heh heh."
I can go to one of those banal AOL chat rooms if I want drivel like this.
Wrote a message to a member, hit send, was asked if I wanted to open or save the file. NO, I WANT TO SEND THE BLOODY MESSAGE! I'll be fair and give it a month, but I'm beginning to feel more like a Twatter than a Twitter.
You comments on Twitter?
Frank 1

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT - Twitter

2009-04-25 by MAinPsych@aol.com

In a message dated 4/25/2009 9:57:03 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:


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(http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm) 



Hilarious!  My point  exactly.
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT - Twitter

2009-04-25 by tony1

I think the maximum IQ allowed on those sites is 75, so there ya go, an answer!
Don't use "myface", don't like facef***", twitter sounds too stupid to bother with!
100% agree with you on the 3rd party reference too!
Tony
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Subject: [newmellotrongroup] OT - Twitter

The Saturday morning "grumpies":
First, MySpace (which I do find useful), then FaceBook (kinda on the periphery but has enabled me to contact a few long-lost friends), and now Twitter (a big f***ing waste of time considering that I already have my friends' direct regular email addresses without having to maneuver through a another damned third-party site).
Typical Twitter examples:
"Woke up early, had spastic diarrhea, missed work, spent most of the day keeping the porcelain altar warm."
"Barack Obama is a Statist, not a Federalist -- Duh!"
"Farted an real juicy one this morning just as I left the elevator before a bunch of people got on - hilarious."
"I'd sure like the chance to rip out a few of Britney's hair extentions, heh heh."
I can go to one of those banal AOL chat rooms if I want drivel like this.
Wrote a message to a member, hit send, was asked if I wanted to open or save the file. NO, I WANT TO SEND THE BLOODY MESSAGE! I'll be fair and give it a month, but I'm beginning to feel more like a Twatter than a Twitter.
You comments on Twitter?
Frank 1

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT - Twitter

2009-04-25 by Nic Lewis

At 19:38 25/04/2009, Tony wrote:


>A lot more of a twatter fan myself.

hah!

I have no idea why people subscribe to these sites, well maybe I do 
but don't want to admit it happens. Just ignore them and don't 
encourage them, please. There's a perfectly good forum here for 
friends and enemies to exchange warm advice and barbed attacks, not 
to mention a perfectly good system for sending personal messages 
called email, as mentioned before. There is also an old thing called 
a 'telephone' which has the immediacy that some other communications 
do not. Oh, and then there's the quaint but effective 'letter'. That 
still works.

Just my 2d's worth. (probably near a  US Dollar now)

rgds
N

Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT - Twitter

2009-04-25 by Jon

The first four letters tell what and for whom.
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The Saturday morning "grumpies":
First, MySpace (which I do find useful), then FaceBook (kinda on the periphery but has enabled me to contact a few long-lost friends), and now Twitter (a big f***ing waste of time considering that I already have my friends' direct regular email addresses without having to maneuver through a another damned third-party site).
Typical Twitter examples:
"Woke up early, had spastic diarrhea, missed work, spent most of the day keeping the porcelain altar warm."
"Barack Obama is a Statist, not a Federalist -- Duh!"
"Farted an real juicy one this morning just as I left the elevator before a bunch of people got on - hilarious."
"I'd sure like the chance to rip out a few of Britney's hair extentions, heh heh."
I can go to one of those banal AOL chat rooms if I want drivel like this.
Wrote a message to a member, hit send, was asked if I wanted to open or save the file. NO, I WANT TO SEND THE BLOODY MESSAGE! I'll be fair and give it a month, but I'm beginning to feel more like a Twatter than a Twitter.
You comments on Twitter?
Frank 1

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT - Twitter

2009-04-26 by lsf5275@aol.com

Who cares? I wouldn't waste my time.
 
 
In a message dated 4/25/2009 12:52:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
MAinPsych@aol.com writes:

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT - Twitter

2009-04-26 by Norman Fay

I got a couple of gigs out of our myspace page, the annoying animated
ads apart, it is a pretty good way of clagging up a couple of yr tunes
for ppl to listen to, quite direct and simple to operate.

Facebook just seems pointless to me - it doesn't seem to offer
anything beyond what you get with email, and  obv, it all belongs to
someone else, so access to anything yuo upload is pretty much at the
whim of whoever owns it?  I guess this is a similar problem w/webmail,
gmail, hotmail etc but somehow it seems less, I dunno, less noticeable
with that.  I don't know why.  It's a problem with myspace too, I
suppose, but if you don't use it as anything other than a little
showroom for your tunes or art or whatever, you can treat it as
disposable.  I don't get what Facebook is "for", I don't see why it's
better than email, or a mailing list.

Twitter strikes me as being the stupidest, most pointless web 2.0 app
yet.  I cannot imagine why anyone would use it, or read it.  No doubt
something even more brainless will be along in 8 months from now,

As an aside, I read somewhere that the plug is being pulled on
geocities soon-ish?  I guess that was the web 1.0 version of myspace.
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:50 PM,  <MAinPsych@aol.com> wrote:
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> The Saturday morning "grumpies":
>
> First, MySpace (which I do find useful), then FaceBook (kinda on the
> periphery but has enabled me to contact a few long-lost friends), and now
> Twitter (a big f***ing waste of time considering that I already have my
> friends' direct regular email addresses without having to maneuver through a
> another damned third-party site).
>

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