I used Twitter to write porn

Date: 15 Apr 2009 01:32 pm (UTC)
snippy: Lego me holding book (Default)
From: [personal profile] snippy
Really, I did.

I had a Twitter account for about 3 weeks, and set up another one after the first week just for the porn. The main account I used to keep track of friends.

I didn't like the style of relationship Twitter offers. If I couldn't be connected and paying attention *all* *the* *time*, I'd miss stuff and the opportunity to respond in a timely fashion; at the same time, a lot of what is posted through Twitter is inane. I'm not the kind of person to be constantly sharing in that way; I felt very narcissistic while trying to come up with a short update that wasn't just "I had pie!" (and of course that's a judgment right there, that "I had pie" isn't worth sharing).

I prefer the asynchronous style of [LJ/email/blogging/UseNET] and more meaningful conversation, even if it's still "I had pie!" Because it'll be more like "I had the best pie I've ever had. It was marionberry and the crust was perfect. My local bakery made it, it's take-and-bake (frozen) and cooks in under 2 hours. I'm *so* getting that again!"

I think I just don't like telegraph-style conversations.

Re: I used Twitter to write porn

Date: 15 Apr 2009 01:33 pm (UTC)
snippy: Lego me holding book (Default)
From: [personal profile] snippy
And actually, it worked great for the porn.

Re: I used Twitter to write porn

Date: 16 Apr 2009 05:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daze39.livejournal.com
What you said about liking the asynchronous style - that's what I like about the things you mentioned, that they let you say something and come back later and read replies... the "short attention span" aspect is sort of what I like least about Facebook, and I suspect that I'd feel the same way about Twitter, perhaps more so. I don't like trying to type on a telephone dial, and (having been brought up to express my verbal thoughts in complete sentences), I'd find the telegraphic style enforced by the short text buffer would be rather annoying. (Cell phone messaging and web-mail interfaces are undoing the revival of social literacy that e-mail seemed on the verge of bringing about...)

I guess I'm just not used to posting status updates all the time as a method of pinging for social interaction - although describing it like that, maybe I should be?

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