Call me on what exactly? I just said it was silly, you’re the one that said some posters “proudly call it stupid”. I thought this was the MPSIMS forum? Geez, calm down! :rolleyes:
(also, sorry, I never heard of that comic strip either).
You guys are all using Twitter wrong (well, different than how I use it). It makes a great customized news feed.
I follow about twenty “people,” but they are mostly news sources (some local, some national, a few specialized ones). Also websites that relate to some of my hobbies, some alerts to free entertainment in my area, and a few favorite comics. I never tweet anything out; I just use it to bring the exact information that I want in to me.
You’re right, you called it a “silly” “worthless waste of time.” Completely different.
Yeah, I get annoyed when people ignorantly say Twitter is worthless, the same way I got annoyed when people ignorantly said text messaging was worthless, and when people ignorantly said message boards and other online communities were worthless, and when people ignorantly said e-mail was worthless. Amazing technologies come along every so often, but there’s always a segment of the population that sticks their head in the sand and smugly declares it to be “worthless” even though they don’t know the first thing about it. Granted, Twitter is more a case of an innovation being in the right place at the right time, rather than a new technology, but it’s one of the most useful communication tools in the First World today. Denying that out of hand is what wastes everybody’s time.
Folks, it’s okay to disagree, but please avoid making personal attacks on others in the course of doing so.
Thanks,
twickster, MPSIMS moderator
Acknowledged.
I stand by my point that it’s ridiculous to claim something is worthless without making even a token attempt to learn anything about it.
IT’S WORTHLESS!!!
You’re right, good catch
Twitter is like Facebook but without all the Farmville et al updates. That was enough of a selling point for me.