This sounds pretty cool...basically dying honorably in cyberspace. However, knowing me, I'd have to go back on Facebook to reconnect with someone and then I'd have to rebuild my profile all over again.
So, Trent Reznor of Nine In Nails (NIN) is on Twitter and is one of the original celebs to embrace the technology (+640,000 followers). Well, that's changed. I'll let Trent's words speak for themselves, since they genius-ly sum up why Twitter could've been the next generation of social networking, but failed by going mainstream too fast:
I will be tuning out of the social networking sites because at the end of the day it's now doing more harm than good in the bigger picture and the experiment seems to have yielded a result. Idiots rule. Anyway, we're in a world where the mainstream social networks want any and all people to boost user numbers for the big selloff and are not concerned with the quality of experience.
I still don't get why people think Twitter is of use other than telling people mundane happenings in their lives. Yes, even more mundane than the crap you post on Facebooks or MySpace or LinkedIn. Twitter does nothing to improve on those social networking sites, other than expediting ways in which self-promoters and spammers can capitalize on innovative technology and people's leisure. Even Kanye agrees. And he's pissed.
Facebook might be planning for users being able to purchase specific URL's for their Facebook profiles. Isn't this how MySpace went wrong and made it easy for spammers to target users?
HERE is an interesting blurb about Twitter's increased popularity in recent months and it's potential as a playa in the social networking scene. However, I've already stated how I don't think that's going to happen. I mean, "@nobody twitter is done"
The title of this post (and the video below) kind of sums up why Twittering went from a hip new technology to the lame grocery listing of daily events that people do. When I first discovered Twitter, I thought, "I can probably now keep up with blog/facebook posting better. Maybe connect with some people on my Crackberry [with Twitterberry app] while out and about." Then , I paused with my revelation when I started reading about celebrities competing to get the most people following their Tweets. Ashton Kutcher won, which tarnished Twitter even further for me.
Now, the blogoshere is abuzz now that Oprah is Twittering. The problem is most bloggers are saying that Oprah will eventually put Twitter out of its misery due to the sheer cheesiness of her announcing show ideas with millions of her mindless fans (who only signed onto Twitter in order to receive her announcements). I have to say I agree with THIS. Not that Twitter usage will go down from Oprah, but that an innovative technology has become commonplace. That rather than investigate Twitter as a new toy, people will join Twitter in the hopes of communicating with a celebrity. That now, in addition to gossip magazines, paparazzi photos and TMZ videos, "news" in the US might consist of a report that Oprah Tweeted "@Gayle i quit" or that Ashton Tweeted "@iamdiddy told ya id win." Because when something mundane happens to any us, your first thought should be, "Let me Twiiter dat."
After watching this ABC GMA Weekend video on Twitter, I decided it might help my posts by staying up to date with technology. The down side? I'm pretty boring when out and about on my Crackberry. Maybe having an outlet will change that!??
Not the last Bristol Palin post. This girl knows how to party. Or at least she used to. I'm surprised all of her boozin' allowed her body to get pregnant!
These are photos from the Perez Hilton site. I think they're from Bristol's myspace account (possibly hacked?).
After watching this ABC GMA Weekend video on Twitter, I decided it might help my posts by staying up to date with technology. The down side? I'm pretty boring when out and about on my Crackberry. Maybe having an outlet will change that!??
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