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Gladiator Posts: 658 (10/29/09 05:15 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Does anyone on here twitter? I twitter a little bit. to be fair i actually have two accounts. one for my film company and one is a private one for me and my hunnie. saves on money of sending texts to each other during the day. but what do you think about the world we live in with the "instant gratification?" does anyone feel like the world of writing letters is lost on a generation (or two) just in a pondering mood today and was curious what you guys thought
TheJollyApe		#1	[-]
Dreamworker Posts: 360 (10/29/09 06:45 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The gods are conspiring against me I think. First time I check on TX in way too long and what do I find if not this. No, I do not Twitter but I just realised I would make an awesome twitterer, possibly. Also strangely enthralled by it. I've been firmly against it for a long long time, but I am crumbling. So perhaps I should give in and give it a test week to see what it's like.
Tobias7		#2	[-]
Posts: 13727 (10/29/09 11:31 PM) *TX Administrator* Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Nope, don't Twitter and I agree that the are of writing letters (even if it's in email) is fastly disappearing.
MHRasmussen	Re: Twitter?	#3	[-]
Posts: 6813 (10/30/09 07:22 AM) *TX Moderator* Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Shenanigen wrote: Does anyone on here twitter? I don't. I just can't see the need for it. but what do you think about the world we live in with the "instant gratification?" Well, I do think Twitter has one thing going for it - IMO, it's great for celebrity-fan communication, simply because it feels like the celebrity is talking to me. does anyone feel like the world of writing letters is lost on a generation (or two) To be honest, the art of writing letters has been lost already. It disappeared when the cell phones became widespread - IMO, obviously. Michael
BlueSkyOne.xena		#4	[-]
Poteidaian Posts: 205 (10/30/09 08:10 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't twitter either...I have not quite understood the need for it yet and in what way it is differernet from facebook etc...I am on facebook...and I use it from time to time (lately a lot) but somehow I feel ambivalent about it: 1. I love how the internet in general connects people from all over the world and that for those "long distance relationships" of all kind it is really cool and I ove that sense of connectivity 2. On the otherhand I realise that I spent too much time in front of the computer lately...here at TX, on facebook, the Creation Con site ....searching pictures for new banner contests etc...and that I am actually neglecting those who are near to me just to keep up with my new virtual world of friends and writing here about how I feel about twitter - while I could be calling a friend near by to ask her out or to write a real letter to my grandma who has no internet acces what so ever. Don't get me wrong, I do have a life outside and I am living it with people I love and try to get the most out of it ...yet I realise that I am also using the internet and all its portals sometimes as an excuse not to face my outside world, projects on the internet seam to be so much more urgent than those waiting for me in reality, for example advancing my carrer etc, go out with a friend, or just to the cinema or just walking the streets of Berlin to see what is new...And at the end of a long computer day and night sometimes, I am not neccessarely happier or more satisfied with myself. I am writing funny stuff to people I work with on facebook and when we meet at work we act more formal again...So I ask myself, why do we never make an appointment to meet in a cafe or for a party...and have real face to face conversation??? I know I am the only one who can change that...and I think one can live fine with both world, but I often wonder why I am sometimes so much braver on the internet than in real life...I should take that strengh and energy I get from being connected via the internet more into my real world. But at least I am aware of some stange mechanisms I have...so I think that I am still in control... Boy...seams like I have many things on my mind about it - need to tell my friends at work today about it - verbally, myself, in person! _______________________________________ "Oh, lets face it, basically ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING." Lucy Lawless
Gabfan23		#5	[-]
Lost Mariner Posts: 1442 (10/30/09 09:24 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't Twitter, Facebook or anything like that and thought I was the only dinosaur around, LOL! My friends are desperate for me to get on FB, but don't feel the need or have the time. As for letter writing, it is a dying art, but I love the fact I can mail or PM people all across the world and receive replies almost instantly (and at the mo with the British postal system suffering strikes, thats a good thing). Banner and keepership courtesy of TaladarkieJJ //userbars courtesy of Taladarkie JJ and Aurora Goddess avatar courtesy of xxdecrepitxx Thank you!
digemup		#6	[-]
Dreamworker Posts: 356 (10/30/09 11:12 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	don't Twitter, Facebook, Myspace.. find it pretty much childish, really don't care what people are doing from one day to the next and have to tell everyone. What makes their lives so important that they have to tell the world? Just don't get it. There's the phone, call if it's that important
bhdaviesuk		#7	[-]
Lost Mariner Posts: 997 (10/30/09 12:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	digemup wrote: don't Twitter, Facebook, Myspace.. find it pretty much childish, really don't care what people are doing from one day to the next and have to tell everyone. What makes their lives so important that they have to tell the world? Just don't get it. There's the phone, call if it's that important I'm on twitter. I use it to follow others mostly, rather than post things myself. Different people use it in different ways, so I guess some are 'childish', but others aren't. In Britain it has been used to powerful effect recently to take a tabloid journalist to task for badmouthing the late Stephen Gately (of Boyzone) before he was even buried and to expose the outrageous legal 'gagging order'/injunction that a firm of libel lawyers were trying to use to silence the Guardian newspaper. As you can tell, I think that's a good thing. Plus I like following the tweets of Sirocco the Kakapo. Skraak! -- Barbara
TwoDudes		#8	[-]
Lost Mariner Posts: 1383 (10/30/09 01:13 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	i have twitter but i don't use it as much as i do myspace or facebook..in fact i don't like it as much as i do the others...As for letter writing ,i agree with a lot the opinions on here..it's a dissapearing way of communication..it got eaten by the computer age and e-mail..i couldn't tell you the last time i wrote a letter and sent via snail mail...
dark hunter silver		#9	[-]
Gladiator Posts: 683 (10/31/09 05:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Gabfan23 wrote: I don't Twitter, Facebook or anything like that and thought I was the only dinosaur around, LOL! My friends are desperate for me to get on FB, but don't feel the need or have the time. As for letter writing, it is a dying art, but I love the fact I can mail or PM people all across the world and receive replies almost instantly (and at the mo with the British postal system suffering strikes, thats a good thing). Same here, I prefer MSN and e-mail or posting a letter Thank you for the Keeper Shenanigen Without Gabrielle, There Would Be No Xena. PLA Forever Fanfiction
Shenanigen		#10	[-]
Gladiator Posts: 659 (11/03/09 01:02 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	For me i do have a facebook. but i use it to keep in touch. no i dont write all my friends. i also dont add just anyone. if i dont know you, i dont add you. thats why i hated myspace and just left. but growing up a military brat it has been really cool to find people i havent talked to in several years. hehe but that is a double edged sword
Tai Warrior		#11	[-]
Xenite Posts: 11087 (11/06/09 10:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I use Twitter, and log on everyday. I use it mostly to follow others, I only post rarely. I love it and find it fascinating. I'm logged in right now actually. lol ...
TheJollyApe		#12	[-]
Dreamworker Posts: 361 (11/09/09 04:47 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Okay, so now I've given it somewhat more of a work-out and I've gotta say Twitter has a lot of potential, but is mainly used for mindlessness. Kinda like the internet as a whole. You could do a lot with 140 characters, one sentence can/could/would/might change someone's life. It could be an ideal tool to just connect and inspire those around you, and be inspired by those who twitter. However there isn't that much inspiration to be gained from knowing who had lunch with whom, still lots of potential in there. [noun] gradual improvement or growth or development; "advancement of knowledge";

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