The thing that bothers me about twitter is the approval seeking aspect of it.
In amateur photography there is bokeh to kick around, in Twitter it's throwing anything and everything to either get a rise out of people or to get approving nods.
It's been reduced to a popularity contest and the jocks and their fans only want their voices and no one else's.
Even simply informational stuff is presented as some big expose and we should be aghast at the realization. It's hard to keep on digesting this kind of communication. Nevermind actual politics which degenerates almost exponentially fast.
OMG, they've been putting wax on old apples to make them look appealing on market shelves!
This graduating class is having one if the most challenging times getting offers and it's because [reason].
Twitter really feels like a broadcast / subscribe network to me. Unless you're a celebrity, you aren't getting significant interaction on there, and interaction is what I use social networks for. Whenever I log in there it is just a news feed of who made the most noise today. I can leave a witty comment and some people might see it, maybe a few more would argue against it if it's incendiary, but at the end of the day it's mostly just consuming. It leaves me wanting something more and because of that I almost never use my Twitter account.
The amazing thing about Twitter is even though it really is publish/subscribe for celebrities, many people following celebrity feeds feel like it's two-way communication.
In amateur photography there is bokeh to kick around, in Twitter it's throwing anything and everything to either get a rise out of people or to get approving nods.
It's been reduced to a popularity contest and the jocks and their fans only want their voices and no one else's.
Even simply informational stuff is presented as some big expose and we should be aghast at the realization. It's hard to keep on digesting this kind of communication. Nevermind actual politics which degenerates almost exponentially fast.
OMG, they've been putting wax on old apples to make them look appealing on market shelves!
This graduating class is having one if the most challenging times getting offers and it's because [reason].