"????? wants to keep up with you on Twitter."
Why? Why? Why? What is the point of this? Why? Myspace got me stand up gigs and allowed me to advertise a comedy show I run. Myspace Music got me a bunch of music gigs and a place to host my stuff. (I'm website illiterate). Facebook is a silly thing that I use to organize nights out and stay in touch with family. That's it.
Twitter has managed to combine the least important characteristics of the above and married it to the world's most annoying habit of texting. More texting! There is nothing more rude, obnoxious and disrespectful than have someone texting right in front of you. I have to fight the urge not to grab the cell phone and shove it into their chest like some reverse Indiana Jones scene.
Why Twitter, Why? Why? Why?
I've read some of these bloody things.
"In a bar beside a man who looks like an Asian Tom Jones"
"I am having a banana muffin"
"On the bus going to see a friend"
"I hate the rain"
"Going home for weekend. I hope the dog is better"
So what?
If I was on Twitter I think the following would suffice:
"In Reno, watched something I've never seen before. Gonna lie low for a while."
"Just hit wife, I think it's over"
"Typing this"
"I can see the head. No epidural. Amazing"
"Shit and blood all over walls. Ann dead in tub, arms missing. Car gone. Help"
Really, your gonna text on that thing standing right in front of me?
Twitter: "Shoved a phone through girls sternum in Reno just to watch her die"
2 comments:
Hi Colin, I came across this post of yours because I wondered if you Twittered. I agree that it can be used for very mundane things... as can FB. ("once I remove this sticker, it's apple-eating time!") I just re-activated my account b/c I saw the relevance of it after learning Bill Gates had an account. He posts links / news worth checking out. So I thought, yeah, I'd like to be in the loop, and also, I will share some news/links, including stuff not about/by me! So I think, by using Twitter, i'm not declaring support for tedium.. just to use it when and as I want. of course, it's yet another 'stat' declaring my unpopularity. So be it. If you start an acct, look for @mphanley
Or just drop me a line listing any places with $3 Guinness. That's the intelligence I need to gather!
Hi MPH, I do indeed not Twitter. I feel embarrassed enough being on Facebook and Myspace although they have been useful. Myspace has got me music gigs and Facebook helps me stay in contact with family back home. If I come across $3 Guinness specials I will simply email you directly, ha!
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