Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Nick FitzGerald wrote:

<snip>

> ...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.

Cool, except that most people I met who are also on twitter did not act 
as you describe. Nice theory though.

<snip>

> 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-)

We did not use the word curmudgeon, you guys did.
We did not attack anyone based on their age, you guys did.
:)

        Gadi.
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