02
Dec
Just thoughts to share since this fucking paper I’m doing is ridiculous:
I’ve been thinking about this website a lot more these days. I see it as a much simpler version of the status updates of Facebook, they are similar and I see now that Myspace is trying to do this tact as well. My main gripe with Twitter and as well as Facebook and Myspace now, is that there is no direct conversation between your friends. No one really asks about their days or whatever they’ve been up to because you’ve (I’ve) been messaging it in this middle man of an internet medium which is conveniently placed as a bulletin board and you can “like/star” your favorites and dismiss the rest as you see fit. The main joke I find in a lot of webcomics is where you tell your friend about your day but they proceed to cut you off and say, “Yeah. I know, I read it on your Facebook.” That shit annoys me more than anything.
The more I type these thoughts out, I see how this can also apply to tumblr.
There was a time where I really enjoyed Twitter and these social mircoblogging websites. One example I recall is that of Amanda Palmer where she has direct contact with her fans, starting a movement on it, auctioning off things and etc. I really enjoy that, that seems to work for her as a collective and I thought it was totally awesome! It made me excited.
But for someone like me that has a very small group of friends, I would much rather you have a telephone conversation with me, set up a movie night, a walk, have some tea with me than to shout out me through a fucking Twitter message to find out about what is going on in my life.
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