About a week ago Gadi to me to Gadi: > >> You haven't been on twitter, have you? > > > > I've never seen anything useful/interesting that I didn't get through > > other media. > > > > I _have to_ read those other sources, so why waste the extra time getting > > nothing additional at a very low signal-to-noise ratio??? > > Because you are making claims factually not true about how things work, > and what you seek is answered as a solution by twitter.
In fact, I think the only "factual" things I said about Twitter were true (140+ char URL issues). I did also offer a few _opinions_ about why Twitter seems, _to me_, to be a solution looking for a problem (and why I expect it won't last in its current form/popularity). Anyway, while reading the following (actually, one of the comments about "too much sharing"): http://blogs.eweek.com/careers/content001/big_brother/how_not_to_get_a_job _via_twitter.html ...I realized another thing I really dislike about Twitter _and_ that I suspect is a major part of its attraction for a certain (rather large) portion of its users, and it really is about "shouting into the darkness". I believe that a lot of Twitter's (sub-conscious) attraction to a lot of its users (not all) is that it caters perfectly to the personality type that conspicuously and VERY LOUDLY shout into their cell phones in public places. _They_ are unawre of this, just as they are unaware that they are shouting into their cell phones. Commensurately, their opinions of "why Twitter is good [etc]" are largely irrelevant to any useful dialogue about the usefulness or not, desirability or not, etc, etc of Twitter. But if calling me curmudgeon because I don't mind pointing out offenses to my sensibilities makes you feel better, by all means just label me thus and move along... BTW -- you and others in this thread should look up the meaning of curmudgeon before brandishing it so freely. Just because someone (older than you) says "that's not a good thing/idea because [something I know from the past]" does not make them a curmudgeon. If that were true there would be no value whatsoever in anyone ever learning or remembering anything. The US has just had eight years of an administration led by a group who seem to believe that, and I think most of us learnt something valuable from that... 8-) Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
