Twitter?
Stephen — the geeky brain behind the blog functioning as it should — sent me a link to a website where you find all of the top RSS blog directories and told me to sign up with as many as possible. So I did. I’m not exactly sure what RSS means nor do I know many other things he wrote in his email — mostly acronyms. Erica saw the email and asked, “Do you even know what SEO stands for?”
Nope. I don’t. And I don’t know what permalinks or plugins are either. She offered to explain it all to me and I told her not to bother. I view the internet the same way I view algebra. Give me the formula and I’ll plug the numbers in. I don’t need to know how it works.
So, I’m submitting my site, hoping for more traffic and somewhere along the way I see something about Twitter. Now, I’ve heard of Twitter, and I know a lot of people use Twitter. Or work with Twitter? Or are on Twitter? So I went to Twitter and signed up. And then I got a confirmation email from Twitter. Welcome to Twitter! And below, this quote:
The New York Times calls Twitter “one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.” TIME Magazine says, “Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app,” and Newsweek noted that “Suddenly, it seems as though all the world’s a-twitter.” What will you think? http://twitter.com
People, what is Twitter? What’s it for? Why is it so hot right now?
I assume that I could find the answers to these questions, and many more, if I took the time to read through the site and figure it out. But I don’t have that kind of time. What with being unemployed and cold and lazy … there’s just no room in my schedule. So, I’m coming to you. All 47 billion of you readers. What is Twitter and why do I need it in my life? Have I signed up for the latest Facebook?
Speaking of, have I told you how I hate Facebook? I HATE Facebook. It’s seems like a Friendster/My Space kind of thing until you sign up. Then the requests start coming in, or the gifts, or the vampire attacks or the whatever the hell else they do on there. What is that about? What’s this, “here’s a plant for your garden” bullshit and why do people poke each other? It’s like being caught in a Groundhog’s Day version of that “National Friendship Day” email forward that goes out approximately every 5.2 seconds. Hugging and Ghetto Snacks and Best Friend requests … It’s too much. THEN I find out when you decline any of these … your friend is notified. Seriously? Now I just ignore them and my notifications list grows longer and longer. And I don’t want to play anymore. But I’m scared to close it down because I’m a sheep.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
January 16th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I don’t really understand twitter either, but I do know that the act of using twitter is called tweeting. Get out. how cute is that?
So I asked a younger friend what twitter was a couple of weeks ago, his description was basically it’s like instantly uploading your blog comments from your cell, or something. Whow knows, I wont be doing it though. But I would like to say, “this afternoon I spent tweeting.”
Facebook is SUPER annoying. When my sister asked me to be her friend I told her I was going to reject her. Of course I didn’t but still. If you are going to use Facebook to spy on people, let me tell you then you’ll need to become friends with all of their friends, so you can actually understand the postings on their walls. I told Hailey I was going to tell all her friends I wanted to be their friends and she begged me not to. Torture.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Facebook is good for stalking and Twitter is good for snarking.