I still want to know what #sandinyourass does. 
I still want to know what #sandinyourass does.
So exactly how does not seeing the point of something translate into hating it?
I think a nice simile or comparison would be that the various social sites like Twitter, FB, etc. are specialty tools, and there are some people who use them properly, people who use them improperly, and people who don't know how to use them at all. But at the end of the day, no matter what people try to say:
flountown wrote: Twitter is a great resource for certain things though, once you ignore people telling you what they had for breakfast, I get my daily fix of NHL news, business news, some jokes, and some pictures of girls in yoga pants... How can some people hate it so much?
Best reason so far to have Twitter. Girls in yoga pants makes everything better. Hell, Bamboo chutes under my nails would be better.
Jay wrote:flountown wrote: Twitter is a great resource for certain things though, once you ignore people telling you what they had for breakfast, I get my daily fix of NHL news, business news, some jokes, and some pictures of girls in yoga pants... How can some people hate it so much?The "I'll never own a cell phone for as long as the sky is blue!!!" crowd needed something else to move on to when they all got cell phones. It's a form of hipsterism for the deliberately crotchety.
This may be the most insightful thing I've read all week, even if it might not be technically true in the case of this one concept (twitter).
flountown wrote: Twitter is a great resource for certain things though, once you ignore people telling you what they had for breakfast, I get my daily fix of NHL news, business news, some jokes, and some pictures of girls in yoga pants... How can some people hate it so much?
None of us here believe there are any pictures of girls in yoga pants. We are going to need to see proof. Especially red-heads....
DrBoost wrote: None of us here believe there are any pictures of girls in yoga pants. We are going to need to see proof. Especially red-heads....
Do NOT make Angry get out his collection of Tom of Finland artwork again.
John Brown wrote: For those of you that were not conscious before the digital revolution, the "hash tag"(#) used to be called the "pound sign"...
I would have called it an octothorpe, myself. £ is a pound sign 
Duke wrote:DrBoost wrote: None of us here believe there are any pictures of girls in yoga pants. We are going to need to see proof. Especially red-heads....Do NOT make Angry get out his collection of Tom of Finland artwork again.
It will be worth it to prove that redheads in yoga pants are real!
Keith wrote:John Brown wrote: For those of you that were not conscious before the digital revolution, the "hash tag"(#) used to be called the "pound sign"...I would have called it an octothorpe, myself. £ is a pound sign
I stand corrected!
flountown wrote: I think a nice simile or comparison would be that the various social sites like Twitter, FB, etc. are specialty tools, and there are some people who use them properly, people who use them improperly, and people who don't know how to use them at all. But at the end of the day, no matter what people try to say:
Dude, if you want me to hate it, keep it up. All you do is belittling those who don't have and don't see the point of all this social media stuff.
I never said I hate it, I said I don't get it. If you think that is hate, you need to look at history and truly understand what hate means.
What does "properly" mean? Are you telling me that the point is to update my information on a real time basis so that my friends will know that I will be going to take a crap and read GRM? Or that it's for "keeping in touch" with family, where you can also use e-mail and a multitude of photo hosting sites if you truly feel the need to share photos? You think that you getting force fed your headlines is the correct way of getting your "news"?
What in the world is so special about them? What can they do that anything else can also do? Maybe they are "easier" but they also have other offset issues that you seem to be blissfully ignoring...
That's not hate- that's not getting the point. If you want to keep telling me that I hate it, then, sure, I'll hate it, and just think you are one of the faceless lemmings who have jumped the cliff, or the diciples that drank the coolaid, or whatever non-thinking manner of follwing the pack you want.
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: I still want to know what #sandinyourass does.
I would imagine it makes wiping interesting
alfadriver wrote:flountown wrote: I think a nice simile or comparison would be that the various social sites like Twitter, FB, etc. are specialty tools, and there are some people who use them properly, people who use them improperly, and people who don't know how to use them at all. But at the end of the day, no matter what people try to say:Dude, if you want me to hate it, keep it up. All you do is belittling those who don't have and don't see the point of all this social media stuff. I never said I hate it, I said I don't get it. If you think that is hate, you need to look at history and truly understand what hate means. What does "properly" mean? Are you telling me that the point is to update my information on a real time basis so that my friends will know that I will be going to take a crap and read GRM? Or that it's for "keeping in touch" with family, where you can also use e-mail and a multitude of photo hosting sites if you truly feel the need to share photos? You think that you getting force fed your headlines is the correct way of getting your "news"? What in the world is so special about them? What can they do that anything else can also do? Maybe they are "easier" but they also have other offset issues that you seem to be blissfully ignoring... That's not hate- that's not getting the point. If you want to keep telling me that I hate it, then, sure, I'll hate it, and just think you are one of the faceless lemmings who have jumped the cliff, or the diciples that drank the coolaid, or whatever non-thinking manner of follwing the pack you want.
Quick forum question, how can I +1 something more than once or twice?
Jay wrote:flountown wrote: Twitter is a great resource for certain things though, once you ignore people telling you what they had for breakfast, I get my daily fix of NHL news, business news, some jokes, and some pictures of girls in yoga pants... How can some people hate it so much?The "I'll never own a cell phone for as long as the sky is blue!!!" crowd needed something else to move on to when they all got cell phones. It's a form of hipsterism for the deliberately crotchety.
That's so true!
I remember saying once that "I don't get whatever technology" and a friend who was ten years older than me said "bam! Just now, Joel is officially old"
I think I was 25 or so at the time.
Joey
Anti-stance wrote: Girls in yoga pants makes everything better.
Not some of the ones at the gym today, but I generally agree.
Twitter reminds me of blogs. Nobody is actually reading the stuff most people post, but they keep doing it anyway. Like blogs, it will die as soon as something else catches their attention.
Don't love it, don't hate it, don't really care, but these threads are always funny.
In reply to alfadriver:
Relax, I used the word hate, because it spawns so many hilarious internet memes that I shall post below. As for being force fed headlines, I love reading hard copy, I still buy books as opposed to e-books, but at the end of the day, the selection is limited, and the internet opens doors to brand new publications and authors that I never would have been exposed to reading local or standard national papers. I have a choice to filter which headlines and people I receive tweets from, just as many people have a choice to ruin a perfectly good social idea by making themselves narcissistic asshats. So, while I personally have an account and have tweeted cool links, jokes, yoga pants pics, and articles to friends, you can also use Twitter as a passive resource to aggregate different information that you may be interested in. That is where I believe it's true benefit lies, and when I find people skeptical about the service, that is the point of view I try to promote to them, so maybe they can find something useful for themselves, but maybe not. At the end of the day I won't lose sleep if you use Twitter or not, but at least now you know it can be used for good things, and isn't solely for people feeling self important by telling their friends they are taking a poop...
Haters gonna hate memes as promised...
So you guys want a positive Twitter story? I went on a banger rally through southern Europe & the Balkans last year. About 30 teams started (and probably 20 finished. ) We all had Twitter on our smart phones and were constantly updating each other on where everyone was, where to stop, where the best cheap beers were, etc. More than once a call came out, "hey guys, we broke down in the middle of Nowhere, Bulgaria. We're ditching the car. Can someone come back and pick us up?", and someone did. Invaluable. Also, "who's in Athens already? Let's meet up here and party!"-type postings made the whole thing a ton of fun. And yes, we did occasionally tweet about what we were eating, especially when it was something amusing or really obnoxious. It turned out to be real boon, a million times cheaper/easier than sending mass text/email messages or voice calling while on the trip.
In conclusion, it's a tool. If you want to do what it does, then great. If you don't, don't sweat it so much. No one's forcing you.
The GRM forum seems like a form of social media.
Texting is great. It does not require both parties to be available at one moment to have a conversation. It's like going straight to voicemail, without having to listen to the instructions how to leave a voicemail message. Who doesn't know how to leave a voicemail message?!
Facebook is the best for planning group events. It is instant and requires almost no effort. The character of Facebook is definitely more reserved than when I first used it about six years ago... it used to be a much more fun place. It was like a secret hangout. I deleted my first account when all of my extended family began friending me, and started over with a clean slate.
Texting has its place. I can leave a message for my daughter while she is in school, when she gets out of class and turns on her phone there it is. The funny thing is she sees it as easier/better than voice mail. 
But I guess what I don't like about Twitter is how many people have jumped on the bandwagon, it's a BFD how many 'followers' someone has (which says something sad about the followers, do they really not have a life?) and 'celebrities' actually go so far as to hire people to do their tweets for them. That is just plain stupid.
I have a FB account but I am rarely, if ever, on it. I have better things to do.
alfadriver wrote: What does "properly" mean?
It seemed to work pretty well for Middle Eastern revolutionaries - apparently it's difficult to block or censor. And I've seen some clever uses for storytelling or delivering one-liners. Overall, though, I don't see much use for Twitter myself.
Still, I've thought about trying to create an account to do something weird to monkey with the companies I've seen trying to advertise with Twitter hashtags. Like trying to take Audi's #wantanr8 campaign and spamming Twitter with things like "#wantanr8 so I can count how many ways new Audis can trigger the Check Engine light." But it would be way too much work to really come up with a way to derail an advertising campaign. It's just so tempting because they seem to invite the sort of hijinx like GM's infamous create your own SUV ad disaster.
In reply to Jay: So... twitter equals text based CB radio with unlimited range?
Sir Brown, could you please hijack this with #sandinyourass?
https://twitter.com/#!/houstonhospital
They're live tweeting a brain surgery.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: In reply to Jay: So... twitter equals text based CB radio with unlimited range?
Yep, but with the added advantages of (a) said unlimited range, and (b) stuff stays on the feed instead of disappearing into the aether as soon as it's been said. You don't need to reply right away and you never have to get the speaker to repeat themselves because you're frantically trying to write it down.
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