10 Reasons You’re A Twitter Loser

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:02 am: [report]

1 Reason you aren’t a Twitter loser.

#1 You never joined Twitter.

cphillis07
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:02 am: [report]

I just joined twitter, and I am glad that I will now know not to make these mistakes. But, I still don’t get it. What am I supposed to tell people on twitter? Why am I so important? I have a blog isn’t that good enough?

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:09 am: [report]

@cphillis07: There is nothing too mundane to tweet. You could try something like this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/

Humble Bee
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:16 am: [report]

HA! I dont have twitter.
I hate playing with phones, read a book people, listen to your ipod. Get off your phone!
Mainly young people, everytime they get a minute to sit down, they automatically pop out their phone and pretend to text someone or twitter.
I guess whatever gets you going though, some people have nothing to live for except putting up a front and looking good for others. Honestly, my life is normal, me twittering would be sooo boring.
I can’t stand Ashton Kutcher and this twitter crap, he’s seems like such an immature show off.

og217
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:27 am: [report]

I’m with CheeeEEEse - all this facebook, twitter stuff is for losers.  People with real friends and relationships don’t communicate via texts what they just ate or what they just saw.  It seems to me that a lot of peopel with seven thousand e-friends spend their evenings alone and lonely, and going blind from squinting at a screen 24/7.

PinkRanger
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:31 am: [report]

no twitter for me. I do have a facebook, but it helps me keep in touch with old friends that live faraway, and family members that are just starting families of their own. I get to see the baby pics . but enough is enough, I doubt I’ll ever get a twitter…...I have enough crap to do.

40yrolddad
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:42 am: [report]

obligatory youtube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w

Alison Wonderland
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:42 am: [report]

Yeah don’t diss on FB that hard. There are a lot of useful and fun things about Facebook that have unfortunately just been overtaken by a whole bunch of junk. Twitter on the other hand… I don’t know. Kind of seems like a one trick pony. At least when my friends’ status updates come up on the news feed on FB it’s like reading the Tweets of people I actually know. (I have a few friends who Twitter and their Tweets post directly to FB…)

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 10:54 am: [report]

FaceBook is a bunch of crap. I put off using it for a whole year, and my account is still 5 years old…..it’s just gone to crap when it allowed non-college people on.

Alison Wonderland
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 11:06 am: [report]

The now defunct schedule feature was my favorite when I was in college. (When FB was college specific.) You’ld put in your course numbers and it would link to a list of people who were taking the same class. If there was a section number and you put that in you’ld know exactly who was in your class. (If you were smart you’ld search the course #s you were taking the -next- semester to see if you could score cheap textbooks from anyone you knew.) Now there really is soo much annoying crap. But I have to admit, I do love Bumperstickers.

cbass8
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 11:10 am: [report]

Oh Twitter haters get over it. You’re no cooler than the rest of us.  Some people can have real lives - work, see friends, play sports, read books AND Tweet.  Really. It’s not that hard.

Humble Bee
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 11:17 am: [report]

YEAH, your right, your so cool you want to tell everyone what you do every hour and everyone gleefully reads it!
yay!

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 11:28 am: [report]

@Allison Wonderland: My first school I went to was one of the original 25. I remember that feature.

@cbass8: *Fake Tweet* Going to the bathroom now. Brb.

averardoll
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 11:36 am: [report]

O.. I remember the class feature… good way to scope out any cuties before the class started. My school was also one of the first to get it. I remember having it, the novelty wearing off and the 1-2 years later..it exploded. Now I get friended by foreign dudes and long lost family members.. meh

Naneenya
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 11:37 am: [report]

Ouch - Judgy, Mc-Judginsons!

People Twitter - who cares?  If you want to Twitter, Twitter!  If not, don’t!

I’ve seen some good use come out of Twitter - and I’ve also seen some Twitter-abuse. (Um, the reasoning for the post)  But the same applies to any media (Facebook, Email, Twitter, Texting, ::ahem:: Comments on blogs - wait, what?!)

So simmer down, folks.  No need to get all crazy up in he-ah!

Jessica Wakeman
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 12:01 pm: [report]

Twitter jumped the shark a few months ago when all the celebs (and celeb-poseurs) starting using it.  It used to be cool and sort of indy.

hellosunrise
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 12:09 pm: [report]

i do not get the concept of twitter. i don’t think anyone is really that interested in your life and would like to know what you’re doing every single second of the day. “omg im eating lunch”, “omg i broke a nail”, “omg i’m taking out the trash”. who cares? do you feel like you’re *THAT* important? and if you must tell everyone what you’re doing, why not do it over myspace or facebook? they have a function just like that. so what’s the point? why does there have to be a whole website based upon that? and why are people actually using it? i swear, our generation baffles me sometimes.

Naneenya
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 12:31 pm: [report]

Alright, I wasn’t going to get into it, but here goes. I’ll defend Twitter. 

While the overall concept of “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less is baffling (I, too, questioned why the hell it was so popular) there is merit to it as well.

I joined Twitter just to see what it was all about.  Working in an industry where social networking is changing the game-plan, I figured it was important to stay current with the “trends” of the industry.  So, I boarded the Twitter-Train - what I found was that Twitter can be a smorgasbord of information. 

Think of it this way:  Twitter is personalized news feeds.  You follow who you want to follow, you don’t follow who you don’t want to follow. 

Here’s an example:  Say, I like news, celebrity gossip, advertising, The Colbert Report, SomeEcards, designer shoes, Good Morning America, and photography.  If I follow people who Twitter about these subjects, I get a constant news flow with information, links to photos, blogs, etc. 

While I understand that some people use Twitter to update mindless things, there are others that are using it to bring awareness to causes, help people find jobs, and maybe enlighten people about specific subjects. 

So it’s not JUST “I’m mopping the floor!” - and those who think that’s what it’s all about are the ones that haven’t taken the time to really understand what the point of Twitter is.

Don’t knock it ‘till you try it!  (Or at least until you’ve done a fair amount of research)

cbass8
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 12:58 pm: [report]

@Naneenya Exactly.
It took me a long time to join Twitter.  I thought “who cares what I’m doing all day”?  And I still believe the answer to that question is “nobody”.

However, I follow a lot of interesting people - friends of course - but also news sources, interesting bloggers, chefs, travel sites, Baconinja, etc.  I get so much cool info from Twitter. Plus, I get to have short fun conversations with friends. I love it when somebody posts some goofy photo they took. I post interesting stories that I find - mostly business based - maybe a few sports things.

I never see “Going to the bathroom! BRB” 

Facebook is so last year.

Fizzy
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 01:51 pm: [report]

I’ve tried to make my twitter interesting by giving myself or the World points based on the mundane things in my life. I guess it’s worked because I’ve gotten quite a few random followers of people I don’t know. Slightly unrelated, it has allowed me to catch up with old friends and seems more intimate than Facebook.

(I will admit to not following The Frisky’s twitter because I already have a permanent tab in firefox on the site, so I don’t need twitter to tell me when new things are posted.)

My twitter: http://twitter.com/allirense

aries3_04
wrote on April 16 2009 @ 02:33 pm: [report]

here’s a joke: what do you call people who twitter obsessively? Twits!

just kidding….

loveitlala
wrote on April 17 2009 @ 09:18 am: [report]

I was also from one of the first rounds of schools to have facebook, and it’s funny… 90% of us who were on that round now have empty profiles.  It just got intrusive when it started with the “what are you doing” feature.  I don’t like intrusive and false intimacy… if I did I would use twitter.  I like stalking potential classmates and friends and boyfriends of friends.  Now you can’t do that because everyone closed their profile in fear of the yucky public.

lili dauphin
wrote on April 18 2009 @ 09:47 pm: [report]

It’s okay if you don’t like twitter. It’s also okay if others do. Maybe twitter makes some of us happy. It’s better than sitting in front of a television set, eating rice and beans and ice-cream all day.

MissChaotic
wrote on April 18 2009 @ 10:31 pm: [report]

@sprinkibrio…I definitely had to set my profile private on FB after I got a million creepy non-college students trying to add me as a friend/message me on random pervish terms…

But as for Twitter, I do alot of campaigning for various candidates and causes; other than that, I don’t really feel the need to Twitter more than once a day.

rsonnack
wrote on April 18 2009 @ 11:43 pm: [report]

I’ve had Twitter for a couple months now and I still don’t understand what all the fuss is about, but I don’t knock people that love it. @rsonnack

MissJennLynn
wrote on April 19 2009 @ 06:51 pm: [report]

WAIT! I thought “twitter” was just a clever nickname for sex… oh mannnn!

Jen
wrote on April 20 2009 @ 10:34 am: [report]

Unless you really love finding out about the mindless droppings coming from random people, there’s not a whole lot of utility in Twitter.  Maybe if I figure out how to make it interesting I will start using it.