Comments on: Real Men Don’t Twitter http://dissociatedpress.com/2009/06/real-men-dont-twitter/ Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jeannie beanie http://dissociatedpress.com/2009/06/real-men-dont-twitter/#comment-961 jeannie beanie Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:02:04 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=1053#comment-961 tweet tweet... makes me twitter. it has it's uses. Mostly..I think being only able to have.. like wha? 170 words to say, speaks (not a pun) to the lack of desire to communicate fully in a conversation. Make it easy and lacking in substance. Tho' little can say alot. Staccato words and phrases quipped down to bare essentials hoping to exchange some thought hallowed out by brevity. This is what happens when people consider their lives tooooo busy. I get it. I do it. I joined the crowd of busy people with only time to spit out a few words to keep others informed and hanging on for more later... maybe. tweet tweet tweet tweet… makes me twitter. it has it’s uses. Mostly..I think being only able to have.. like wha? 170 words to say, speaks (not a pun) to the lack of desire to communicate fully in a conversation. Make it easy and lacking in substance. Tho’ little can say alot. Staccato words and phrases quipped down to bare essentials hoping to exchange some thought hallowed out by brevity.
This is what happens when people consider their lives tooooo busy.
I get it. I do it.
I joined the crowd of busy people with only time to spit out a few words to
keep others informed and hanging on for more later… maybe.
tweet tweet

]]> By: TeacherPatti http://dissociatedpress.com/2009/06/real-men-dont-twitter/#comment-958 TeacherPatti Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:15:12 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=1053#comment-958 I have more than 10 followers (I think I have 70some, most of whom are known to me personally) and I'm still ambivalent about Twitter. Here's the thing...I log on and you see @soandso ha ha you are so funny! Right on! What a great statement! @suchandsuch That sounds like a plan! Thanks! @whoisitywhatisity Oh no you dinnit! That is so perverted! In other words, you are eavesdropping on conversations BUT YOU ARE ONLY HEARING HALF OF THE CONVERSATION! (Unless you follow both parties, which isn't often). It's weird. I do like it for when I blast out--Hey! Going drinking! Who's with me?? But otherwise, I prefer FB b/c at least I can feel like I'm *having* a conversation instead of merely reading half of one. I have more than 10 followers (I think I have 70some, most of whom are known to me personally) and I’m still ambivalent about Twitter. Here’s the thing…I log on and you see
@soandso ha ha you are so funny! Right on! What a great statement!
@suchandsuch That sounds like a plan! Thanks!
@whoisitywhatisity Oh no you dinnit! That is so perverted!

In other words, you are eavesdropping on conversations BUT YOU ARE ONLY HEARING HALF OF THE CONVERSATION! (Unless you follow both parties, which isn’t often). It’s weird.

I do like it for when I blast out–Hey! Going drinking! Who’s with me?? But otherwise, I prefer FB b/c at least I can feel like I’m *having* a conversation instead of merely reading half of one.

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