Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>]

Nick:

> ...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. 

I'm wondering what your basis for this belief is?  In what sense do you 
think Twitter caters to the personality that shouts very loudly into a 
cellphone in public places?  I don't really see the connection; people who 
post to Twitter are only going to be heard by people who explicitly listen 
to ("follow") them, not by everyone who happens to be standing nearby.

> _They_ are unawre of this, just as they are unaware that they are 
shouting 
> into their cell phones. 

I'm not sure what you're suggesting that people are unaware of?  I doubt 
that many people who post to Twitter are unaware that anyone on the net 
can read what they post; that's what Twitter is for, after all.

> 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. 

I have no idea whether or not you're older than me.  :)  I would put the 
odds at about 50/50.  And I have even less idea of the age of anyone else 
on this list.  And just to round out my ignorance, I'm not sure what 
corresponds to "[something I know from the past]" in your dislike of 
Twitter.  What past thing that I may have overlooked says that Twitter is 
probably not a good thing/idea?

DC

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