Comments on: I won’t tweet, don’t ask me

By: sya

sya — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:11:50 +0000

I’m sort of antisocial–so all of this would be pointless since I don’t really want to find other people and I don’t want other people to find me. I don’t have time for twitter, although admittedly it would be useful for something like “Help! I’m stuck in the elevator” or “ARG! Newest undergrad spilled four gallons of MTBE on the 3rd floor”–that is, if I could get more than zero people following my feed.

By: ms7168

ms7168 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:30:27 +0000

At first I thought Twitter was only for those who have webpages who when out of pocket could still stay in contact with their readers. But it has turned into so much more than that. One of the most popular features is you can text in your tweets. Also if you paste in an URL it turns it into a tinyurl so that you don’t overrun your 140 character limit.

And Fillyjonk . . the work around is you post two or three tweets to get everything in there. Makes perfect sense to anyone who uses Twitter :)
You also learn how to say things in less than 140 characters.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:13:04 +0000

Anybody wants to find me, they can use Google or Scroogle or whatever. In fact a former high-school classmate of my brother’s recently found me that way, while looking for a way to contact my brother.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:12:00 +0000

Facebook isn’t all that — and there’s nothing that says anyone has to accept a friend request. At least, when I dropped a few dozen off my friend list a few months back only one of them seemed to notice, and she asked why in such a nice way that I added her back.

Twitter just seems like another way of doing something I never do anyway. I did get a Twitter account but only because at the time it was the only way to keep track of what was going on with Blogrolling.com. Once I decided there wasn’t anything happening and I didn’t care anyway, I also discovered there doesn’t seem to be a way to cancel a Twitter account. Maybe I just didn’t look hard enough. Maybe like with the Blogrolling.com thing I just don’t care.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:41:54 +0000

I don’t Facebook because it would be too weird to have students “friending” me (and would they “de-friend” me if they got a bad grade?)

(As far as I’ve been able to determine, none have run across the blog. Not that I talk about them there except in the most general of terms)

As for Twitter, I fear the 140 character limit would mean most of my posts would be “Oh crap not enough space….”