Love it Bob - that's a good start!

Yea Peter, I can't wrap my head around Twitter either but I do "tweet". ;-)

I will send a tweet with a link when I have a new tutorial posted on Boris FX TV. This way people who follow me will see that a new tutorial is available. Boris also tweets their tutorial updates and I follow them so I can see what others are creating tutorials on. I also follow VideoGuys because they tweet when they post new stories on their site. Occasionally someone will reference me in a tweet and so I see those too but I'm not sure what to do about them.

But... I don't really get it. I don't check it every day and I don't understand how people use it to carry on a conversation. It seems like you're having a conversation with the world and It just doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe it's my age.

I do use Flipboard on my iPad and iPhone almost every day and that collects news that I'm interested in and my Facebook feed and my Twitter feed all into one. This is an excellent way to stay connected with all these services without having to check each one all the time.

~jr

>>>>On the upside maybe we've finally found something that is a hallmark of a generation gap.<<<<

But what kind of generation gap. This seems to be one in reverse.

When I tell younger people that I do not use facebook or twitter they sometimes say it's because of my age, Younger folks are more open to new technologies.

My reply: No, and there is nothing new about any of this. I don't use facebook and twitter because I'd already done the exact same thing in the mid 90s, 10-15 years before facebook and twitter came into existence and it was as pointless then as it is now.

Streaming videos, posting stuff on line, exchanging private messages, chats. It's all been old news since around 1999. The only thing these newer services ( is that what they are ) have done is dumb it down so idiots can use it and that is not exactly progress.

Besides why do people need to follow you on twitter when you already have your own site. If they really want to follow you they can simply cut out the middle men and go there. And you can give them more than 140 characters at a time.

Since we're going to loose the ASHES back to OZ, I'm more than ever avoiding it.

G

I don't initiate the use of any form of social media. I have a folder of unanswered "friend requests" from friends and family all of whom probably have my telephone number and street address. Recently, I've had vendors invite me to join Twitter so they could spam me there as well as on the telephone and by email.

I couldn't help but think that I'm "in with the out crowd" when I recently read in the [I]paper[/I] newspaper that the proposed replacement for Jay Leno was chosen from all the other competent candidates because he was "trending on Twitter".

Don't get me started on bottled water.

Oh please do! Pass him that bottle of Water!!! Oh do do.

Erm, r we Twting nw? Grf!!!

G

> Posted by: deusx "Streaming videos, posting stuff on line, exchanging private messages, chats. It's all been old news since around 1999."

Yea, when my kids started to "text" I told them that while Guglielmo Marconi's technology was interesting, they really should take a look at what Alexander Graham Bell has been up to. ;-)

> Posted by: john_dennis "Don't get me started on bottled water."

When I lived in the city, people use to drive to upstate NY to get spring water from the ground. Now that I live in upstate NY and have my own well that delivers sprint water to my tap... my wife buys bottled water!!! Ugh!

~jr

I have a profile on LinkedIn and Vimeo. I signed up for Facebook one or two years ago when I realized that businesses were using it as much or more than their websites. I have maybe 3 Facebook friends and that's plenty. Posting on a Forum such as this is as close as I'll ever get to tweeting.

I think Twitter, Facebook, and the like is popular among "young people" because it gives them a sense of community in their highly compartmentalized and otherwise lonely lives. Emailing and texting is a great way to stay in touch but it also marginalizes relationships. It's an ersatz friend you can take with you and engage on your own terms. That's not the same as, say, hanging out with a real human friend for an afternoon. How good do you feel when you exchange a slew of emails or texts with a friend? Compare that to how good you feel when you spend an afternoon with a friend doing something you both enjoy? In my mind there is no comparison. But maybe I'm just too old and I don't get it.

PS. I drink bottled water when I'm traveling but at home I drink tap water : )

No tweeting.
When I become an uber movie star, I shall pay a minion to post tweets as if it was me.

I accepted Facebook as a necessary evil a few years ago, but despise Twitter. I do use it strategically for film promotion, by following the networks I want to get in, then using Hootsuite to schedule a bunch of future tweets so I don't have to deal with it daily.
I think one of the initial attractions was the game-like quality of the character limit. I'd like to create a social network where all posts have to be written in Haiku.

I don't use Twitter but I'm on Facebook all the time.

No you're not! You're here!

G

Never used Twitter, and only rarely on Facebook. My wife and her family use Facebook daily.

In the 60's I was texting all over the world with a technology my parents couldn't understand - Ham Radio.

I observed that when my daughter was a teenager, she was constantly on her laptop chatting with friends all over the world on who knows what social networks. When my wife complained, I reminded her that when she and her sisters were that age, it was the telephone.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

OK, Grazie, I often take a break from Facebook long enough to come here and see what's happening on my other social network. :)

No Twitter, no Facebook for me.
I prefer not to puke the details of my life to the world.

I joined Facebook a couple of weeks ago because it was the only way to contact someone I wanted to talk to. Now all manner of people I have never heard from want to be friends with me (!!!). Seeing as that contact did not work out, I think I will cancel the account.

Hey Grazie, if you are not on Twitter, do you want me to post some cricketing sledges here just to keep you happy?

Geoff

I've never even seen a tweet, much less sent one.

Like Geebax, I briefly tried Facebook, but it spooked the heck out of me and I eventually cancelled, asking that ALL my information be deleted. People who I hadn't seen in half a century started showing up asking to be friends: it was like the graveyard at midnight with all these dead bodies rising up and walking towards me.

I've seen those zombie movies and I know how they end.

i use the bulletin board outside the local supermarket.

for wider broadcast i use flyers on telephone poles...

. . . . and I know how they end.

It's official!

G

To be a frequent twitter user you need to believe that other people want to know that you're having a cup of coffee; that your thoughts are great insights; that you are unusually perceptive and witty. Some of our TV shows encourage audience interaction via twitter and post the best tweets on screen; these demonstrate that most twits don't reach beyond the coffee.

[I] these demonstrate that most twits don't reach beyond the coffee.[/I]Ah, so a person who tweets is a twit? That explains everything.

I read recently that blocks of "followers" can be cheaply bought. So all those big numbers are pretty much meaningless.