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May 26, 2009 16:07:10 GMT -5
Post by Velkontés on May 26, 2009 16:07:10 GMT -5
My hypothesis: Twitter is the gayest thing ever. It is the Michelle McCool of Internet things. It's shit like this that makes me hate the Internet. It's like how they sent a man to the moon... and he played golf.
It's the height of self-absorbtion. Who fucking cares what you are doing right now?
Why can't it go away?
How embarrassed are people going to be in 10 years time when they look back and remember they used to use this thing?
Does anyone disagree?
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Twitter
May 26, 2009 16:24:31 GMT -5
Post by GLF on May 26, 2009 16:24:31 GMT -5
Agree completely and im glad someone mentioned it.
PS Fuck Twitter
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May 26, 2009 17:07:29 GMT -5
Post by Naitch on May 26, 2009 17:07:29 GMT -5
Fuck it in its stupid ass.
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May 26, 2009 17:13:16 GMT -5
Post by Snitskyman2016 on May 26, 2009 17:13:16 GMT -5
Fuck it in its stupid ass. yes, in its ass!
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May 26, 2009 17:16:17 GMT -5
Post by GLF on May 26, 2009 17:16:17 GMT -5
Then its mouth
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May 26, 2009 18:24:19 GMT -5
Post by Naitch on May 26, 2009 18:24:19 GMT -5
I've never been to the Twitter site but I can't imagine there is anyone in the whole world I give a fuck enough about to keep up with like that. Maybe myself but I already know what I'm doing.
And mostly I don't want everyone in the world to know what I'm doing either. Hear that world? You can fuck off and die now.
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May 26, 2009 19:28:46 GMT -5
Post by Velkontés on May 26, 2009 19:28:46 GMT -5
It wouldn't bug me so much if it wasn't fucking EVERYWHERE. Why the fuck don't people grow up? And this is coming from someone posting on a wrestling message board! That's how retarded I think it is. And mostly I don't want everyone in the world to know what I'm doing either. Hear that world? You can fuck off and die now. I don't get it either. Well actually I do get it, some people will do anything for attention. It's a drug. Lookatme! Lookit lookit lookit! I can't stand the bs the users/defenders of twitter use. I have a similar feeling about 24 hour news. There are very few things I need to know RIGHT NOW, at THIS VERY MOMENT, nownownowNOWNOWNOW! NOW! It can wait. I'll watch the news in the evening to catch up on what's happening.
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May 26, 2009 19:41:59 GMT -5
Post by Snitskyman2016 on May 26, 2009 19:41:59 GMT -5
to keep up with like that. Maybe myself but I already know what I'm doing.
Because you are awesome.
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May 26, 2009 20:15:28 GMT -5
Post by Snitskyman2016 on May 26, 2009 20:15:28 GMT -5
I guess this is how you BF Twitter
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May 26, 2009 22:40:19 GMT -5
Post by Champ on May 26, 2009 22:40:19 GMT -5
It's a site for people who need to be reassured daily that they're cool
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May 27, 2009 14:53:45 GMT -5
Post by Naitch on May 27, 2009 14:53:45 GMT -5
So what Champ is basically saying is this board is GLF's twitter.
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May 27, 2009 17:19:13 GMT -5
Post by MasterSnit on May 27, 2009 17:19:13 GMT -5
I also agree that it is the gayest thing ever. I also agree with V's statement that it is the height of self-absorbtion. What I have heard about it is that you cannot communicate with other people directly, you just put your message up and people signed up to your account receive a tweet (gay) which lets them know that you are DOING SOMETHING RIGHT NOW!!!1! There is no way to converse about what you are doing RIGHT NOW!!1!, nope, but you can let everyone else stupid enough to care know about it so they hopefully think that you are awesome or cool and you can, in turn, think more of yourself because nameless and faceless people on the internet are reading about you and might think you are cool. I don't understand it at all. In fact, most of these social networking mediums annoy me, or I don't understand, such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook. That's the only ones that I know of but I'm sure there are more. In fairness, I can understand them a little because people can actually communicate and stay in touch with people, but Twitter just seems like you post any insignificant fart that your brain just squeezed out and throw it up into the winds of the internet for no reason or purpose. Personally I did open a MySpace account years ago, I believe at the request of Naitch because he wanted his friends list to be international, but I didn't use it. The only time I did use it was to interrogate V's friend about his disappearence. Apart from that, I have never used things like this and don't think I ever will, no matter how popular they are. About the 24hr news, too, that also annoys me. I put in on Sky News a couple of weeks ago and the presenter was bragging that on Sky News you get the full day's news and sport in "15 minutes, every 15 minutes". Fuck. Off. And, just when I put the news on, they were bragging that you could download an application for an iphone that can give you the full round up of news at any time so you never miss anything. It is bloody ridiculous. I guess now that I'm getting really pissed off I may as well continue. I think I'm definitely become a wee bit technophobic. I have not used a mobile phone for maybe about 3-4 years. I did buy one a while back but, although it did the same as my old broken one that I liked, it was so unnessasarily complicated that I just got rid of it. I only need a phone to phone someone now and again, I don't need a 3.9 megapixel camera, a radio, techno ringtones and internet access that hardly works. I have been needing to buy one again recently but any time I look at them in shops I just hate them all. I recently changed internet suppliers and had to get everything working which, although the booklet said "Dear customer, this shit is so fucking easy, man. Just stick the plug in and Bob's your uncle. It's all good!". It wasn't that easy. Although, it was nothing compared to the time I tried networking the computers. My ambition in life is to piss on every router on earth. I'm rambling a bit, but you probably all know what I mean. I did a course at University a few years back and during the first lecture the lecturer was explaining that the essays and projects had to be submitted typed and not hand-written. Upon hearing this, an older guy, about 50, sitting in front just got up rambling and saying that if he couldn't submit work hand-written then he wouldn't bother. At the time I thought it was a bit silly, and he could have at least made an effort with the computers, but there must be plenty of people like him out there that just look around at the way technology is advancing and be repelled by it. Right now I, and most of you guys it seems, are being repelled and soured by irrelevant and idiotic technological and social "advances" such as Twitter just like many older people today likely felt about computers in the early days back in the late 70's and 80's. At least computers in the beginning had a purpose, but these days it seems many people spend their miserable lifes giving themselves virtual dick tugs by metaphorically swinging their dicks and tits around online for other people to look at. That's it. Much of this might not have made any sense, but hopefully some of it did. To concudle, yes... Twitter is gay.
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May 27, 2009 18:04:57 GMT -5
Post by Velkontés on May 27, 2009 18:04:57 GMT -5
Holy fuck MasterSnit. Get a blog!
Interesting you mentioned mobile phones, because it's a good parallel. In that, I can see a "need" for them, and I can see that they are "useful". It's all the horseshit surrounding them (ring tones, textmessages, etc) that I can't stand. The culture surrounding them suggests that "you cannot live without your mobile" which is patently ridiculous. If you lost your mobile then (unless you're a doctor or something) it's an inconvenience. Nothing more.
So with MySpace / FaceBook - I can see that they are useful. E.g. Champ getting his music out there. I volunteered some time with a charity last year, one of the things I did was help them set up a FaceBook page, it's a really easy, free way of spreading the word.
I fail to see any scenario in which "Twittering" offers any advantages over MySpace, FaceBook, message boards, updating yer website, e-mail. I fail to see how knowing something RIGHT NOW!!!1! is in any way essential.
I think that Twitter is going to be a flash in the pan and eventually people will chill the fuck out over FaceBook and MySpace. Just like they chilled out over message boards. I have no intention of ever going to a school reunion. Obviously I had friends in secondary school but you know, you grow up, you move on, you meet new people. Why the fuck do you *need* to know what some asshole you knew at school is doing right now? This is why I don't buy the "keeping in touch" argument in support of FaceSpace. If these people really mean something in your life you'd visit / call / write to them. Otherwise it's just curiosity.
And I am aware of the irony of someone who used to have a MySpace blog writing this on a message board to people who he's never met. There's nothing *wrong* with it, new ways to communicate with people and all that. I guess it's just a sense of degree and proportion. Some asshole with 1000 "friends" on FaceSpace (or it's Twitter equivalent) doesn't have 1000 friends, if you catch my drift.
In conclusion: Twitter is gay.
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May 27, 2009 18:32:47 GMT -5
Post by Naitch on May 27, 2009 18:32:47 GMT -5
V, I moved too but Myspace is a great way to keep in touch with all the people I've met. I've made some good friends. Hell man, I'm planning with my groomsmen over Myspace. Its cheaper then daytime phone minutes. Also as some dude you know over an internet message board getting a degree in Business Marketing I can tell you that Myspace is a Godsend for getting your product out there.
Edit- And too prove my point I just logged into myspace and looked for Shamwow. 5 Shamwow Guy imitators. By doing nothing thats free publicity.
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May 27, 2009 20:20:08 GMT -5
Post by Velkontés on May 27, 2009 20:20:08 GMT -5
V, I moved too but Myspace is a great way to keep in touch with all the people I've met. I've made some good friends. Hell man, I'm planning with my groomsmen over Myspace. Its cheaper then daytime phone minutes. Also as some dude you know over an internet message board getting a degree in Business Marketing I can tell you that Myspace is a Godsend for getting your product out there. Edit- And too prove my point I just logged into myspace and looked for Shamwow. 5 Shamwow Guy imitators. By doing nothing thats free publicity. I think you missed what I meant, or maybe I didn't express myself very clearly. I also think that MySpace and FaceBook are good things: they are handy tools to keep in touch with people, in the same way as the telephone or sending a letter through the mail. But that's all they are. Another means of communication. It's the "fetishisation" of social networking sites I can't stand, whether it be posting "first" on a blog or spamming message boards to have the highest postcount or having 1000 "friends" on MySpace. Or giving constant, minute-by-minute updates of the quotidian banalities of your life - i.e. Twitter. Unlike MySpace or message boards, which have inherent usefulness, I see *no* core *usefullness* to Twitter. Twitter is pure bullshit.
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