Re: the Twitter syndrome

[airiefairie]

Kol, in a recent conversation: "Personally I like the mystery of sometimes, just sometimes not knowing where a person I care about is and what they are doing. There is a certain charm in it."

I couldn't agree more.

Comments

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

I think it is just a temporary fashion. Although there is already a culture emerging of sharing one's life with the world at large to the tiniest detail, even when unwarranted and unwanted.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

"It's not just wrong, it's DANGEROUS!" :p

[kinvore.livejournal.com]

Hey on a related note, are any of you on Facebook? I use that more than LJ these days, be nice to see you guys on there (and by "you guys" I mean you, Kol, Mahnmut, Nairi, Dd, and anyone of my TP friends).

Twitter, while similar, has always kinda bugged me. Not sure why. I've always said that if I ever opened a Twitter account all my tweets would be one word: "Farted".

But that's because I'm this stunning combination of class and eloquence.

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

I don't have a Facebook either. I used to have but it was not as fun as LJ. =)

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

I think my family would panic if I left facebook because they've forgotten that there are other ways to contact people. Reminds me of my favorite Onion story lately: http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-who-temporarily-disables-facebook-account-deem,19269/

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

LOL this is why I love the Onion. =)

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

There is also a certain charm in knowing that nobody knows where you are and what you're doing.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

For me its more that I don't care where people are and what they are doing 60/60/24/7. Its not as interesting as people seem to think it is. :P

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

If anything, you cannot miss a person that you are practically 60/60/24/7 with (through their tweets). And missing a person is a sweet pain to experience. And the joy when you meet them is enormous.

[il-mio-gufo.livejournal.com]

i fail to understand twitter :/

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Yeah...and it applies very much to faceboob too...

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

I closed mine. I was becoming a slave. And there are much more exciting things to do IRL. So you may call me a former addict, now quitter! :)

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

A Twitter-Quitter! =)

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Never had FB and i now realise i havent missed much :)

[alphistia.livejournal.com]

Kol, you're not missing much, although fb is addictive. But you, your wife, your sister, and your boyfriend Stijn ;-) are about the only people on my lj friend list who bother to update their blogs regularly - god bless you!

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Its because we've chosen LJ as a medium for keeping touch with one another. Mainly through pms and the hfjgang comm but also the LJs themselves ;)