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   Joined: Wed Mar 08 2006, 11:21AM Posts: 6494 | Source: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/14.html Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long. It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into the abyss without listening to what anyone else is saying. Logging on gives you a page full of little hand grenades: impossible-to-understand, context-free sentences that take five minutes of research to unravel and which then turn out to be stupid, irrelevant, or pertaining to the television series Battlestar Galactica. I would write an essay describing why Twitter gives me a headache and makes me fear for the future of humanity, but it doesn’t deserve more than 140 characters of explanation, and I’ve already spent 820. -- Joel Spolsky
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 Joined: Tue May 15 2007, 11:36AM Posts: 4390 | And I totally agree. Nice find. I'm not suffering from insanity, I'M ENJOYING IT!!! If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough of it    | ||
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  Joined: Wed Mar 31 2010, 11:36AM Posts: 1 | This completely sums up my thoughts on Twitter! A dismal waste of time.. ~~ Consequence of eloquence ~~ | ||
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 Joined: Fri May 26 2006, 10:50AM Posts: 3225 | I joined and deleted my account at the end of that day! utter nonsense! | ||
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Joined: Fri May 26 2006, 10:50AM Posts: 3225 | so how is twitter now? Is it worth it to join again? | ||
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 Joined: Mon Sep 18 2006, 04:12PM Posts: 3360 | I joined again the other day, found it to be just as useless as before... EDIT: there were words missing from my sentence :/  Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" 64bit (Desktop) and 32bit (Netbook) | ||
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Joined: Fri May 26 2006, 10:50AM Posts: 3225 | Good thnx for the heads up - won't even waste my time then! | ||
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Joined: Tue May 15 2007, 11:36AM Posts: 4390 | I don't have the time to waste  I'm not suffering from insanity, I'M ENJOYING IT!!! If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough of it | ||
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  Joined: Sun Dec 10 2006, 12:44AM Posts: 254 | Never made sense to me in the beginning, but then again people moan at me cause I think Facebook has created a false dependancy in society that people actually can't survive without it. It was like late 90's with cell phones and how parents always worried cause we never left them alone  Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.   | ||
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Joined: Wed Mar 08 2006, 11:21AM Posts: 6494 | Jub Jub Caridia wrote ... Never made sense to me in the beginning, but then again people moan at me cause I think Facebook has created a false dependancy in society that people actually can't survive without it. It was like late 90's with cell phones and how parents always worried cause we never left them alone I think that "false dependency" is an excellent term Jub Jub, and can be applied to a whole host of things in today's world. Marketers (and others) would have you believe that you absolutely have to have item X or service Y in order to be happy. But its a falsehood predicated on today's materialistic society. Money can't buy happiness. And yet, millions and millions of people have fallen into these false dependencies, and are blind to the fact that they're trapped within them. What's needed is a fresh perspective, an objectivity that allows them to see their lives for what they really are, and then a re-alignment of priorities. Unfortunately, you could publicise this need from a broad platform like the internet, or you could even take the time to knock on their doors individually and try to help them to understand that face-to-face... and it wouldn't make a difference to a large majority of them. They're too comfortable in their own little Matrix of dependency. 
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