Twitter Me This Batman

[+Chrysalides]

I am not grumpy and don't find myself being a retro-grouch (as a 40-something in the IT world). But I find the entire notion of twitter, facebook, etc etc to be completely lame. I guess I am not so stuck on myself as to share completely inane details about my life with dozens of people of whom aren't "really" my friend. How sad. Now LinkedIn as a job networking tool, you might have something there.

Strange - are you my long lost twin separated at birth? That was eerie - I could have typed exactly that

[+Castle Mischief]

Hello, my name is Castle Mischief.

 

(Hello, Castle Mischief.)

 

I too used to make fun of people who used twitter and there reasons for using it. Then I started using it to update FaceBook (which I actually use to keep in touch with actual friends.) Now sometimes I use it just to challenge myself to meet the 140 character limit with real English and still be coherent.

 

It's just a tool. It's only as idiotic as the people using it. Just like this forum.

[+NetworkCacher]

NetworkCacher on Twitter

 

Been using it for a little while now, useful some days, waste of time on others. Thankfully its not all marketing gurus and p0rn spam yet. What the hell, come follow me if you like.

[+gilliancclarke]

I'm on facebook too (not twitter) Ithink it's great for chatting about future ideas for caches etc..... Add me if you want - I need more caching friends!!!

 

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/gill.clarke?ref=profile

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Hello, my name is Castle Mischief.

 

(Hello, Castle Mischief.)

 

I too used to make fun of people who used twitter and there reasons for using it. Then I started using it to update FaceBook (which I actually use to keep in touch with actual friends.) Now sometimes I use it just to challenge myself to meet the 140 character limit with real English and still be coherent.

 

It's just a tool. It's only as idiotic as the people using it. Just like this forum.

 

I have to wonder fewer people would avoid Twitter like a nipple deep alligator infested swamp if it was called something other than "Twitter". I use it almost daily but not for anything related to geocaching. I am constantly learning about new technologies, interesting conferences or online presentations, and lots of other useful information for work just by following a handful of people. I get requests to follow someone a couple of times a week but rarely do. A couple of weeks I got a request for some woman who's handle didn't sound familiar. I checked to see who else she was following and discovered the name of someone that I saw give what was the best keynote presentation at a conference I've ever seen. I figured anyone that was following this guy was probably someone I might want to follow as well. It was pretty clear after a couple of messages that she was in a business that had nothing to do with what I did. I guess call numbers (as in a library catalog) and call girl at least start with the same word but that's as far as the similarity goes.

[+Chrysalides]

It's just a tool. It's only as idiotic as the people using it. Just like this forum.

And about as idiotic as running around looking for tupperware so that we can sign a piece of paper

 

I think the main problem for getting into facebook or twitter for me is that there's no one else I normally associate with who uses them.