So there's this website where you tell what you're doing every minute of the day

[Frank Cannon]

Why does this not sound fun to me?

In fact, it sounds like something from one of those dystopic '70s science-fiction movies. Charlton Heston would be joining forces with Bernie Casey and crashing their motorcycles through the front door of company headquarters.

There was a time in my life where I had to report what I was doing at every minute of the day. I was twelve years old.

So why does the media act like this is the greatest thing ever, and suggest that I'm missing out by not participating in this wonderful Tweeting thing?

[msongs]

1. interferes with all that VERY IMPORTANT texting lol nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

27. I wouldn't have a cell-phone for all the tea in China.

[Christa]

2. Twitter changed my mind

after the Iran election.

I get up to date news and info there, and for many Iranians it is their only way of communicating what is going on to the outside world. It can be shallow and about what you are doing every minute of the day, but it does not have to be.

It is your choice.

[Javaman]

11. But after the coming Iranian revolution redux, what then?

we will be treated to what someone had for breakfast until the next world event.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. last month it was swine flu

last night it was social network for DU'ers after DU went down

You do what you want from it

By the way people even lost links there

Oh and there is an active single payer group too, for example

[Javaman]

31. I don't want anything from it. that's why I don't use it.

:shrug:

Aside from it's political use, it just seem to do nothing more than give free publicity to the new flavor of the week.

If other people want to use it, great. I just to see the need for it myself.

[Christa]

33. It all depends on who you follow

Follow only those who Twitter real content.

[Echo In Light]

3. Because it serves to keep people docile, dumb and malleable

Just the way corporate America needs them to be in order to maintain a phony "representative democracy."

[arcadian]

12. ^^^ THIS^^^

Echo In Light gets it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. You tell that to the Iranian government who TRIED to shut it down

[Echo In Light]

25. Their methods of control differ from the American ones

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. Here is the lesson, there gets a point in a nation's life

we might even reach it here, where all that control goes out the window.

We might see it in our lifetime.

Social contract and all that... but tweet, don't discount it. It is cutting edge right now...

By the way you know what social networks, even DU are? Transmission means...

[Pirate Smile]

4. People post as much or little as they want to - just like here.

They don't have to post anything about what they are doing. They can just post about politics.

[LeftinOH]

5. Next evolutionary step: Communicating without any text entry at all: ITS CALLED A CELL PHONE

[smirkymonkey]

9. Forget it - That technology is years and years away! Not in our

lifetimes!

[tridim]

6. It's the 00's version of CB radio.

10-4 good buddy.

[Echo In Light]

8. "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck. I'm about to put the hammer down."

[Lex]

7. Why would you tell what you are doing every minute of the day?

Why would you think people want to know that?

I don't think you understand how most adults use Twitter.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Of course they don't. They don't want to either, as that would expose their laughable caricatures...

It's fun watching them, though.

[PVnRT]

13. ...and another county heard from.

Another hour, another TWITTER IS THE GREAT SATAN post. These are getting boring.

[uppityperson]

14. I thought you may be referring to DU from the subject line

[Lex]

17. LOL

:thumbsup:

[anigbrowl]

15. That's not how I use it

I have several twitter accounts - 2 personal (professional and friends-and-family), one for work. I only post to the former a few times a week when I find something interesting or noteworthy. The Work one partly serves a marketing purpose and gets updated more frequently.

[omega minimo]

16. Bcz "dystopic" = 2 mny ltrs

:hi:

[tkmorris]

18. You are condemning a tool based on how some people use it

Never a good idea. If Alexander Graham Bell could have jumped into a time machine and seen how our middle daughter uses a phone he'd have taken an axe to his invention to save the world from it.

If that doesn't make the case, look at the internet. It's been a world-changing development, literally, and we are infinitely better off for it. It can also be used for great harm. A tool makes things possible, but people choose how to use them. I can take my hammer and build a table or I can change the shape of my neighbors skull. The hammer is indifferent in either case.

[rucky]

19. I'm typing my comment right now.

[rucky]

20. I just pressed the "post message" button.

[rucky]

21. You're right. This sucks.

[bertman]

22. My 26 year old nephew would LOVE that site. But he'd be the only one who would want

to read about his pathetic life. I'm pretty sure of that.

[tekisui]

26. Like most technological and cultural tools, it has good uses,

and inane uses.

I don't understand those who fear or hate it. Utilize what good can come from it, ignore the idiocy. Or, just ignore it altogether.

I do find it ironic that you are posting a minute's long thought on a website that is updated with posts by the minute.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Wouldn't every post be something like "Now I'm posting on the website where I post about

what I'm doing every minute of the day"

"Now I'm still doing it."

[NeedleCast]

29. As long as you continue to use the technology incorrectly you're liable to never understand it

You can use a chainsaw to kill mosquitoes but it's really not the best technique.

Twitter, just like any other bit of technology, is what you make of it. There are things on there of no intrest to me. I ignore those things. There are things that are of great interest to me. I am happy to have those things.

Think of Twitter like news headlines where anyone can write any news, from the mundane to the exceptional. Just like with a print newspaper, I scan the headlines and read the articles that are of interest to me, skipping those that aren't.

[Beartracks]

32. Because if YOU are tweeting, THEY don't need to hire journalists. :) n/t