Twitter C/D

compared to twitter ffs it's way more spaced out, longer posts, more discussion. people can actually speak in decent sentences.

on facebook you could kick a ball

first time i've seen facebook described as "thoughtful" before - not that i haven't had the occasional good conversation there but it's not the norm.

it's just a swamp really, i use it exclusively to bitch about things i can't put on twitter (my facebook-only friends prob think i'm a lot angrier than i am, lol)

i dunno, it depends how you use it i suppose. i just feel like things move more slowly on facebook and discussions can involve more people, and lengthier points.

sharing say, a video, is just in no way as enjoyable on twitter as it is on facebook, because of the interface and the way people use it.

can we all set aside our difference and agree that google+ combines the best of all possible social networks

not used it yet...are you joking or serious?

i take it ledge likes his social networks devoid of any thing other than people screaming "HELLLLOO??" into a big empty void?

xp bit of both... it has the long-form aspect of facebook and the more casual network-building of twitter, and 'circles' are way better than lists in fb or twitter.

but yeah it's not really worth it until more people are on it. and then, what, i'd have three social network things to try and keep up with? christ. just forget the whole thing.

Not seen google+ yet but its arrived at a point where I'm wanting to streamline/downsize any social network stuff rather than expand - I'm also uncomfortable that my real name is used with the google stuff.

Realizing a work person was following me on twitter (despite my name never having been on it) was the final straw

yeah, i'm sure google+ is fantastic but i just don't need another thing. i wonder if people will eventually make the move from FB to Google like when everyone just decided to up sticks and leave MySpace?

The idea appears to be that they will because can restrict content to certain people much more easily than fb?

yeah if i could get it to work (it's not camino compatible) the appeal would be that - twitter's just about reached the point that fb did a while back, where it's not as much fun because "everyone" is on it

they don't know each other and are kind of polar opposites tbh

― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:51 (36 minutes ago) Permalink

even better!

Realizing a work person was following me on twitter (despite my name never having been on it) was the final straw

Can't you just make your Twitter private and kick that person off?

Can't be arsed with Google +. If it wasn't for the events page I'd have canned Facebook ages ago.

twitter's just about reached the point that fb did a while back, where it's not as much fun because "everyone" is on it

But "everyone" being on it was why people went mad for Facebook in the first place - like it suddenly seemed to be full of people who weren't anywhere else on the internet. But the novelty of that wore off pretty quickly. I don't want to have conversations on Facebook because I don't really like the idea of someone I went to school with chipping in on a discussion of eg politics with some rabid and inane right-wing viewpoint i'd been previously unaware of.

Dunno, FB was better when it was all on one page and they hadn't overhauled the status updates to make it more like Twitter (and less navigable in the process).

yeah if i could get it to work (it's not camino compatible) the appeal would be that - twitter's just about reached the point that fb did a while back, where it's not as much fun because "everyone" is on it

Dude yr browser is clearly barely fit for purposes, you should just bin it.

I don't want to have conversations on Facebook because I don't really like the idea of someone I went to school with chipping in on a discussion of eg politics with some rabid and inane right-wing viewpoint i'd been previously unaware of.

Google+ circles makes it really easy to avoid that (as does using Facebook lists, probably, haven't tried)

I did a lot of picking and choosing over which people from school I would add to FB, and I stuck to the rule 'would appear in public with them still' when making my choices. My page is blissfully free of right-wing morons jumping into threads as a result.

Dude yr browser is clearly barely fit for purposes, you should just bin it.

i don't have any choice! chrome doesn't work on my mac version and firefox is the worst piece of shit ever.

safari?

though new-twitter is a pain in the arse on my 10.4-running powerbook too - marginally better in firefox than safari, but still pretty rubbish.

firefox is the worst piece of shit ever.

Hello lex pretend, I would like to introduce you to Internet Explorer. We are not allowed to install other browsers on our work machines and all day I am so thankful for the very existence of Firefox. It isn't perfect, but goddamn there is so much worse out there.

haw i'm on IE on an office computer atm.

i can't remember why i don't like safari but i've never thought of it as a real option.

says the guys running.... camino

you might like opera, lex

All browsers but Opera frustrate me.

you might like opera, lex

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand)

ILX taken out of context, ahoy...

LOL

Who does the Hulk music reviews on Twitter? I fucking love those.

― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, August 5, 2011 9:18 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whiney does them I thought?

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, August 5, 2011 9:20 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

^ underrated post

lord, avatar changes take forever to propigate

propagate

propegate

hahaha

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__mokxbTmuJM/RdZ8b98gHVI/AAAAAAAAAE4/NM58D3MgmBA/s320/mediate.GIF

the escalating sadness at Michael Winner's decision to leave Britain while ignoring his own tweets saying that he's not is a new high for this medium.

i'm still getting used to #newtwitter. when i have a random person's tweet on my timeline, i assume it's been retweeted by somebody i'm following - how do i tell who this is?

somewhere on the tweet it tells you "retweeted by [user]" iirc

i think

it used to on old twitter, but i can't find it on #newtwitter

alright, say bob smith's retweeting jim smith -- this is what it looks like:

jimsmith Jim Smith [symbol] by bobsmith

the "by [username]" is who's doing the retweeting

it's right next to the retweeted person's name

i did a screenshot, 4th tweet down

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m606/lexpretend/Picture1.png

I give Twitter approx 3 more years to age itself into social irrelevance.

lex otm

mine doesn't look like that!

huh it should

ive heard talk that twitter is inserting tweets it thinks 'you might find interesting' into ones timeline, cant recall the details tho

i haven't heard that