Oh, thank God! I'm glad I'm not the only one who's irrationally irritated by Twitter! Even the name drives me crazy. To me, it seems to imply mindless chattering - or talking just to fill up the silence. Marketing fail?
I don't rag on it much, because I don't want to upset friends who love it. I have been that person who loves Facebook and is in a room with a bunch of people irrationally badmouthing it, and it's a lousy feeling.
So for any Twitterers reading this comment, please know I don't mean this as a personal judgment on YOU. But, to share with you, Thistle: I really dislike it when Twitter feeds pop up on my LJ lists or when they get posted on Facebook status messages. (My newest irritation is that Twitter has now been optionally added to the Google Buzz feeds.)
I wish there were a way I could block Twitter messages from these venues, but so far while the sites offer an option for Twitterers to *display* posts, there seems to be no option for non-Twitterers to *omit* posts. I now have to scroll through a dozen messages that mean nothing personally: '@Thistle LOL THAT WAS GREAT' or -- I don't even know what the pound signs mean, but the point is, it's information that is often personally directed in reply to someone else. A text-message would really spare me scanning those lines!
I would politely ask that all Twitter users consider not cross-posting to Facebook, LJ, Buzz, etc - those of us who don't want to be tweety would really appreciate it!
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Date: 2010-02-19 12:40 am (UTC)I don't rag on it much, because I don't want to upset friends who love it. I have been that person who loves Facebook and is in a room with a bunch of people irrationally badmouthing it, and it's a lousy feeling.
So for any Twitterers reading this comment, please know I don't mean this as a personal judgment on YOU. But, to share with you, Thistle: I really dislike it when Twitter feeds pop up on my LJ lists or when they get posted on Facebook status messages. (My newest irritation is that Twitter has now been optionally added to the Google Buzz feeds.)
I wish there were a way I could block Twitter messages from these venues, but so far while the sites offer an option for Twitterers to *display* posts, there seems to be no option for non-Twitterers to *omit* posts. I now have to scroll through a dozen messages that mean nothing personally: '@Thistle LOL THAT WAS GREAT' or -- I don't even know what the pound signs mean, but the point is, it's information that is often personally directed in reply to someone else. A text-message would really spare me scanning those lines!
I would politely ask that all Twitter users consider not cross-posting to Facebook, LJ, Buzz, etc - those of us who don't want to be tweety would really appreciate it!