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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #25 on: April 19, 2011, 02:39:51 PM »
Seems to me its just facebook with less features.

I think I just prefer facebook.  =|

Besides, how many social network sites do you really need?
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2011, 02:48:23 PM »
It's a one-way Facebook. Useful for getting quick updates on news to your phone, and when making updates yourself you don't have issues with people saying "u sux" and "ur gay" etc. Which is why celebrities use it - no need to pay moderators to clear out the crap. If you're not interested in crosstalk, it works.
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2011, 04:28:00 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on April 19, 2011, 02:39:51 PM

Besides, how many social network sites do you really need?

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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2011, 04:45:12 PM »
I don't do social media.

It seems that every week, there's a story about someone's Facebook?Twitter/Myspace/Whatever account getting someone in hot water, be it their employer who objects to a post, a prospective employer who doesn't like what they posted . . . or law enforcement, who sees the postings as confessions of some crime.

Although I may do something on "LinkedIn" soon . . . purely for professional reasons. (Resume, patents awarded, that kind of thing.)
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2011, 05:38:06 PM »
Quote from: HankB on April 19, 2011, 04:45:12 PM
I don't do social media.

It seems that every week, there's a story about someone's Facebook?Twitter/Myspace/Whatever account getting someone in hot water, be it their employer who objects to a post, a prospective employer who doesn't like what they posted . . . or law enforcement, who sees the postings as confessions of some crime.

Although I may do something on "LinkedIn" soon . . . purely for professional reasons. (Resume, patents awarded, that kind of thing.)

The real question is 'why they hell would you post something that gets you in trouble?'.

I will never understand such reasons to avoid using facebook (or other such medias) as you have total control over what goes on your page, who can see your page and even who can find your page.

The fact that its another venue for stupid people to be stupid is not a reason for you to avoid it.
Hell, if I lived by that menality i'd never go anywhere.
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #30 on: April 19, 2011, 05:40:12 PM »
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #31 on: April 19, 2011, 05:53:10 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on April 19, 2011, 05:40:12 PM
What do you call APS?

An anti-social network site?

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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #32 on: April 19, 2011, 06:30:22 PM »
I think I saw Demi Moore's Twit...or was that Kutchers?
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #33 on: April 20, 2011, 04:40:58 PM »
It's a mistake to compare it to facebook. Something like %95 of content is generated by %2 of users. It is not so much social media as a replacement for rss etc. I follow a number of tech/political/religious folks I respect, and they post interesting links and funny commentary. Jonah Goldberg is hilarious, as is Iowahawk.
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #34 on: April 20, 2011, 04:58:42 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on April 19, 2011, 05:40:12 PM
What do you call APS?

I don't know that fora are considered social networks. But I wouldn't say I need it, either.
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #35 on: April 20, 2011, 05:07:43 PM »
Quote from: The artist formerly known as fistful on April 20, 2011, 04:58:42 PM
But I wouldn't say I need it, either.

Says the guy with nearly 23,000 posts. :P  =D
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #36 on: April 20, 2011, 06:39:41 PM »
I can stop anytime I want.
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #37 on: April 20, 2011, 06:51:00 PM »
Quote from: The artist formerly known as fistful on April 20, 2011, 06:39:41 PM
I can stop anytime I want.

No you can't you have to get your daily dose of APScrack.  :P
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Re: Explain Twitter please?
« Reply #38 on: April 20, 2011, 06:54:31 PM »
Quote from: Gowen on April 20, 2011, 06:51:00 PM
No you can't you have to get your daily dose of APScrack.  :P

Fine. See you after Holy Week.  :P
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