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Re: What I would have written

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Post by bambax »

jdiez17 wrote: post #38
bambax wrote: post #37

> And yet I see no solution to this problem. How hard can it be not to tweet?? I came here just to say this, and saw that many others had just said the same thing, and yet I felt the urge to say it again, myself! O, irony! Seriously though, Twitter isn't like TV or smoking. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substance there is; TV isn't really addictive, in a medical/chemical sense, but it's so easy -- you sit on…

Since when are TVs "a default"? I don't think I've watched TV in a big while, I don't even remember TVs being generally on around me.

Well, they appear to be. I don't have a TV myself, but in many homes when there's a TV, it seems to be on all the time. Sometimes people mute it to eat lunch or dinner, without even turning it off...

Re: What I would have written

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Post by bambax »

lmm wrote: post #34
snowwrestler wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I liked what comedian Louis CK had to say on this subject recently: http://teamcoco.com/video/louis-ck-springsteen-cell-phone My experience is that writing long, insightful pieces of prose is just hard, miserable work. People do it because they feel compelled to, not because it's a fun way to relax. So it's easy to procrastinate or avoid it, especially if there aren't any external demands or deadlines to meet.

>My experience is that writing long, insightful pieces of prose is just hard, miserable work. People do it because they feel compelled to, not because it's a fun way to relax. So it's easy to procrastinate or avoid it, especially if there aren't any external demands or deadlines to meet. Is it a problem if they don't? There are now many, many insightful essays on the internet; one could spend a lifetime reading them…

Very true and insightful. The OP writes as if it's a big loss for the world that he tweets instead of blogging, and that Twitter is to blame for this loss.

But

1/ it's not a big loss

2/ he's the only one to blame.

Re: What I would have written

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

I think dcurtis should not be vilified for "seeking external validation". He is building up Internet capital, turning google juice into a brand. No one claims Warren Buffet is seeking external validation for building up his capital?

A while back I realised I was emailing myself ideas (for essays, just random interesting connections) with the hope I would one day go back and turn them into articles and put them up. guess what?

so I now have a wordpress app on my phone and I force myself to take an extra minute to turn a two sentence thought into a two paragraph idea. so I have actually published ideas - and I will pull actual longer, researched, articles from there.

what I think twitter does not provide, and is I think the next evolution of twitter use, is 140 characters as a pull-quote. You cannot fit a thought into 140 characters but you often can fit a headline.

someone notes on here that there are already a lifetime of insightful essays available - bit where are they? how do I find them and especially find them at the right time ?

Discovery as a search function is still in its infancy - I probably do want google to know what I am thinking so it can give me the essays that will most help expand those thoughts.

Re: What I would have written

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Post by jviddy »

One perfect idea, distilled to it's essence can be easy shared in less than 140 characters. No all idea's but some. It's just a matter of finding the right idea and taking the time to express it correctly.

Having said that, I'm really not a fan of twitter, but that's for completely different and unrelated reasons

Re: What I would have written

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Post by jasonkester »

There must be a group of people somewhere in the world that actually uses Twitter. I've never met any of them in real life, but occasionally I see things like this online that suggests that however far fetched the idea might be, it's nonetheless true.

Amazing that this author is so upset about what this random website has done to his life. I have no idea how he could have found enough value in it to have integrated it into his life so deeply. Nor can I understand why he would continue using it if it made him unhappy.

In short, seven years later, I still don't get what Twitter is for or why anybody would use it.

Re: What I would have written

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Post by Tichy »

jasonkester wrote: post #47

There must be a group of people somewhere in the world that actually uses Twitter. I've never met any of them in real life, but occasionally I see things like this online that suggests that however far fetched the idea might be, it's nonetheless true. Amazing that this author is so upset about what this random website has done to his life. I have no idea how he could have found enough value in it to have integrated i…

If you don't use it, it's probably hard to understand.

Re: What I would have written

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Post by runn1ng »

jasonkester wrote: post #47

There must be a group of people somewhere in the world that actually uses Twitter. I've never met any of them in real life, but occasionally I see things like this online that suggests that however far fetched the idea might be, it's nonetheless true. Amazing that this author is so upset about what this random website has done to his life. I have no idea how he could have found enough value in it to have integrated i…

Exactly.

I know many people that use Facebook (including myself). It's a website that almost freaking everybody is on; it's used for sharing stuff from daily lives, instant messaging, organizing social events.

I have no idea what Twitter is for.

Re: What I would have written

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Post by [deleted] »

Tichy wrote: post #48
jasonkester wrote: post #47

There must be a group of people somewhere in the world that actually uses Twitter. I've never met any of them in real life, but occasionally I see things like this online that suggests that however far fetched the idea might be, it's nonetheless true. Amazing that this author is so upset about what this random website has done to his life. I have no idea how he could have found enough value in it to have integrated i…

If you don't use it, it's probably hard to understand.

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