On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 10:26 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote: > > Let's also not forget that Twitter and Facebook just helped overthrow a > couple of governments, so not all babble is pointless ;)
Pretty sure the concept of coup d'état was well established long before Twitter or Facebook. People just use the tools at their disposal given the times. Back in the day papyrus might have done what Twitter and Facebook are doing in a much more modern and high tech way. At some point in time papyrus was high tech, as many other things. > Not sure what the deal is, it makes sense to me. To me there are some good > take aways from those "conversational" type tweets. I mean, it's possible to > learn from a conversation even as a 3rd party, so not all conversations are > useless. That might have fallen under the Pass-along value. For conversations where there was a passed along value vs ones with no value. > The obvious contrast is someone who is using Twitter as a slow IM > like, "Hey are you coming over to my house later?", ... "Yes". To me that is > pointless. Also, let us not forget about the lulz. On the surface lulz seem > pointless but they so brighten the day. Or another contrast, someone using Twitter at all. I am pretty proud that I have never. :) > The bigger point is that a large majority of people just have nothing > interesting to say, so they just say anything in order not to be silent. I > just wish people would understand that it's ok not to say anything for a few > days on Twitter. The planet will still keep spinning and everyone will still > be able to move on. The same could be said for blogging, and most of the social media/networking world. Surely some good, amongst all the useless babble and opinions. > There is far worse research out there. I can see where some company looking > at a social network presence may be interested in this type of data. I > personally wouldn't do it, but oh well. Its just ironic considering the companies they are researching or built around have yet to grab a profitable footing and still feeling their way, making their mark on the world. Just wondering if any money is being made from all the wheel spinning. Sure seems like a whole lot of time is being wasted. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
