Great post, Steven. I've probably spent more time online trying out new tools and applications to communicate with than actually communicating. But it is a bit ironic I found this article through twitter.
hdunce
· 1 year ago
hmmm... interesting. maybe i should stop reading mashable and wait for the important blog posts to be sent to me from somewhere/one else...
ha ! j/k !
Ian Ellis
· 1 year ago
I also have found myself spending less and less time on twitter. It seems at this point to have become merely a marketing tool - yet another place for people slap a virtual poster up, trying to drive traffic. When I consider guys like Fred Wilson and Guy Kawasaki, I can't help but wonder how these guys would ever actually have time to reed the twitter feed - aren't they really just using it to promote? If this IS the case - twitter will actually become even less useful with more people on, not more useful. Maybe the first member based site that gets worse with a growing membership....
DerickValadao
· 1 year ago
I signed up to comment... first one, may be serendipitous.
I'm a social media lurker. I have many feeds (although, I admit to hacking feeds due to noise, keeping a healthy sub 150 in my GR trends page). While I've thoroughly enjoyed reading about everything hot in the tech/social media/science/politics/etc. one thing I never understood was why everybody felt the need to be in constant contact. I would read the twitterati alltop and constantly I would note that conversation was either banal or noise circulating around hot feed topics.
Why would we waste our time? I've considered twitter but I am blocked by the fact that I don't do much to penetrate the social media web, and I would rather surf more feeds instead of tweet about every little thing. I'd write more but size limits..
Tina
· 1 year ago
Oh thank heavens I'm not the only wonder wondering what all the twitter was about! Seriously, neither my husband nor mother knows what I'm doing all day, every day. Why would they want to? And if they don't care, why would anyone else?
With that said, I joined Twitter this week and am quietly following a few to see what all the fuss is about. I don't say much because I'm trying to determine what's relevant and what isn't, which I suppose is the anathema of Twitter...
ahmed
· 1 year ago
im totally with you i noticed that i finally don't need that much of connectivety i always use my email , google reader for blogs and IM or irc if im going to listen to some people enjoying their morning for example .. passing coffee or something like that but im still searching for somthing more popular and friendly .. by the way you are definitely right
ian
· 1 year ago
what is a twitter
thesimiandowntimeanalyst
· 1 year ago
I hear ya Steve, I just wish I was Ian. Ignorance has to be bliss in the wake of Twitter.
Heh, Twitter went down forever, then GTA IV came out, and I kinda faded from any use at all without days and days in between passing.
The only reason I seem to show up there is because I get 30 random new followers and it's like, uh, are they expecting something?
Well, except that earthquake guy, that seems to be on the PULSE of how we the twittering public cause seesmic* activity.
ER *I meant seismic, but seesmic came out, I'm not correcting it, because it's funny and weird, but mostly weird
Tom Lee
· 1 year ago
Hey, I'm working with these guys who recently launched a new social networking site called HumanBook. I found this particular post to be quite helpful as we get the 'Humanbook Project' off the ground. It is a "Living Address Book" that combines Web 2.0, Wiki Technology, Social Networking and an open, scalable framework that enables users to stay connected with anyone they have ever met. I was wondering if you guys could give me some feedback on the new website. Ideas, suggestions and criticisms are greatly appreciated. Humanbook.com is the site. Thanks!
Mike Amarezello
· 1 year ago
Humanbook needs some work on it's usability. I do love the fact people can use the wiki tech, very different. Also, it's a little eerie that all of my information (and everyone else's) is already in the system... I can only imagine how you guys got all of that info. Mike A
ErikMendelsohn
· 1 year ago
Hmmmm...tried it out and it's got to be census data or something. Property databases? Social Security databases? Who knows. I tried searching for several different people and they're all in there. I'm just not sure how.
Skipease People Search
· 6 months ago
Aside from the seemingly ongoing reliability issues on Twitter, I find it may just not be useful. I recently bought a book by Joel Comm called Twitter Power to see if I can get more out of the Twitter network.
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ha ! j/k !
I'm a social media lurker. I have many feeds (although, I admit to hacking feeds due to noise, keeping a healthy sub 150 in my GR trends page). While I've thoroughly enjoyed reading about everything hot in the tech/social media/science/politics/etc. one thing I never understood was why everybody felt the need to be in constant contact. I would read the twitterati alltop and constantly I would note that conversation was either banal or noise circulating around hot feed topics.
Why would we waste our time? I've considered twitter but I am blocked by the fact that I don't do much to penetrate the social media web, and I would rather surf more feeds instead of tweet about every little thing. I'd write more but size limits..
With that said, I joined Twitter this week and am quietly following a few to see what all the fuss is about. I don't say much because I'm trying to determine what's relevant and what isn't, which I suppose is the anathema of Twitter...
but im still searching for somthing more popular and friendly .. by the way you are definitely right
Ignorance has to be bliss in the wake of Twitter.
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=twitter.com...
The only reason I seem to show up there is because I get 30 random new followers and it's like, uh, are they expecting something?
Well, except that earthquake guy, that seems to be on the PULSE of how we the twittering public cause seesmic* activity.
ER
*I meant seismic, but seesmic came out, I'm not correcting it, because it's funny and weird, but mostly weird
I'm working with these guys who recently launched a new social networking site called HumanBook. I found this particular post to be quite helpful as we get the 'Humanbook Project' off the ground.
It is a "Living Address Book" that combines Web 2.0, Wiki Technology, Social Networking and an open, scalable framework that enables users to stay connected with anyone they have ever met.
I was wondering if you guys could give me some feedback on the new website. Ideas, suggestions and criticisms are greatly appreciated. Humanbook.com is the site.
Thanks!
Mike A