Why is nearly every service-oriented site turning into its own social network? I just went to Plaxo. Remember them? Remember the place that you linked with your Outlook Express so that you and your contacts could keep up with your changing email addresses and phone numbers, and where you could create a neat little email business card for the footer of your emails? It's gone. Now it's just a Facebook clone. And then there's Photobucket and Flickr. Damn it, all I want is a place to store my photos. I don't want to share them with Suzie Creamchesse and her clicque...I'm tired of getting poked and of fielding application invitations. No, I don't want to to be part of your MySpace Mafia, and no, I don't want you to hug me or throw a teddy bear at me, and I don't want to join your freakin' cause de jour. I'm tired of being forced to look at slut singles video ads, flabby bellies, acne, and elves slapping Santa's moobs.
I worry about Blogger's move toward becoming a social network. When that happens, I'll be out of here. Anticipating this happening sometime within the year, I'm already looking for alternative blogging options that will make it possible for me to host this blog on my domain. I'm hoping they'll back down, but I don't think they will.
I have a huge confession. I don't get Twitter. What the hell is it? What's the point? I have it, but I seldom use it because I'm uncool and don't understand that the big deal is. I must be missing out on something though, because every celebrity in Hollywood and every politician in Washington D.C. uses it. But then, maybe that's all I need to know. I don't get most of what those people do anyway.
What have you got against Suzie Creamchesse - I think she's adorable.
ReplyDeleteSteph...quit holding back! Tell us how you really feel...lmao
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I were having the "what the hell is twitter" conversation last night. We just don't get it either. My college-aged son joined in. He, being of Facebook mind, doesn't get it either. Thank goodness!
ReplyDeleteOh beware...Steph's feeling good now. This is how Steph gets when Steph feels good. LOL!!
ReplyDeleteI thought I was the only one that didn't get Twitter. Everyone acts like it's soooo hip. And if I see that jiggling belly flab in my face one more time, I'm going to xxxx or go blind. You tell 'em Steph! (glad you're feeling better)
ReplyDeleteWord!
ReplyDeleteSteph! You can talk to me on twitter!
ReplyDeleteClay, I can talk to to you here, or on your blog! If it's just another chat utility, I have Yahoo, AIM, MS Messenger, ICQ and Skype. What makes Twitter better? I'm not being facetious; I really want to know.
ReplyDeleteThe things I've seen of Twitter is just people entering one thing that they're doing after another. Reminds me of the bit in Help with the scientist's assistant: "I am now moving my left foot. I am now moving my right foot." The thing I keep thinking about is that, if people are spending so much time entering stuff into Twitter, how would they have time to read the Twitterings of other Twitterers? And, if they don't have the time to read others' Twitterings, is anybody reading theirs?
ReplyDeleteCommunication is a great thing, but at some point when you have things coming at you from all sides, it becomes just noise and you block it out, resulting in greater isolation than before.
Wow, I'm glad I'm not alone in this. I was really beginning to feel like that kid in school that everyone's laughing at and s/he can't figure out why. Oops, that was me!
ReplyDeleteTweets: I'm not dissing Twitter, I just don't get it.
Wow, I'm glad I'm not alone in this. I was really beginning to feel like that kid in school that everyone's laughing at and s/he can't figure out why. Oops, that was me!
ReplyDeleteTweets: I'm not dissing Twitter, I just don't get it.
I don't get Twitter either, and I don't like the name - it sounds too twee for me. I'm not into facebook or any of those other things.
ReplyDeleteGuess I'm just a typical introvert. I prefer regular e-mail.
I'm done with MySpace, and Facebook is getting as bad. I just joined one called Eons, which is for people over 30. It has a nice interface and nice features, but I haven't made any friends there yet.
ReplyDeleteI second that emotion!
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ReplyDeleteFeeling better because I am not the last one standing without twitter.
Thanks, Steph! :-)
I don't get Facebook either. I signed up on super private mode, just so I could see some of the things my sister was finding about our old neighbourhood. Now at least a dozen people (many of whom I don't know) want to be my friend so I can see who writes on their wall and who's doing what and when. I don't care. I really don't get the draw but how are they all finding me if I'm supposed to be hidden?
ReplyDeleteAmen to that. Flicker, twitchet, twitter, scratchit, all lost on me.)
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ReplyDeleteFeeling better because I am not the last one standing without twitter.
Thanks, Steph! :-)
I don't get Twitter either, and I don't like the name - it sounds too twee for me. I'm not into facebook or any of those other things.
ReplyDeleteGuess I'm just a typical introvert. I prefer regular e-mail.