Comments on: CNN Wants YOU! http://www.suzemuse.com/2008/09/cnn-wants-you/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:41:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Robin Browne http://www.suzemuse.com/2008/09/cnn-wants-you/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Robin Browne Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:05:19 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/?p=316#comment-276 Hi Sue, I had one of those "Twitter-gone-mainstream" moments this week when I tuned into the CBC election coverage to see that they have a reporter devoted to gathering user-generated content from Canadians via a number of social media channels - including the Tweetosphere. Hi Sue,
I had one of those “Twitter-gone-mainstream” moments this week when I tuned into the CBC election coverage to see that they have a reporter devoted to gathering user-generated content from Canadians via a number of social media channels – including the Tweetosphere.

]]> By: Stacerella http://www.suzemuse.com/2008/09/cnn-wants-you/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Stacerella Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:30:14 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/?p=316#comment-277 The only drawback to Twitter I can see is that the mini conversations are so mini, I will end up addicted to mini conversations and my short attention span will grow even shorter. I don't want that to bleed over to my offline daily life. I have to remain very conscious of that. I can see it happening very easily, without my realising it when it happens. The only drawback to Twitter I can see is that the mini conversations are so mini, I will end up addicted to mini conversations and my short attention span will grow even shorter. I don’t want that to bleed over to my offline daily life. I have to remain very conscious of that. I can see it happening very easily, without my realising it when it happens.

]]> By: Stacerella http://www.suzemuse.com/2008/09/cnn-wants-you/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Stacerella Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:26:22 +0000 http://suzemuse.wordpress.com/?p=316#comment-278 The instantaneous gratification of Twitter is what attracted me to it as a replacement for Facebook. Let's face it, the best part of FB is the update feed. I loved all the quirky updates, Jack Handy thoughts and nutty jokes my contacts used to type in at any given point in the day. That's why I was hooked on FB for over a year. And then I grew tired of the stupid bs that some lazy contacts would substitute for conversation and insight into their daily lives like requests for zombies or Texas hold 'em games. For that I could go back to ignoring them for decades on end like before I discovered FB. Hee. At least on Twitter we have half a chance of having some great cross conversations on various topics that you will be required to use your brain to follow. That appeals to me. During the day I like to tune out boring customers with some lively and interesting topics and links I can use to chew up the long hours till I get to go home. I have managed to find a few people to follow on a lot of the various things in my life I'm most interested in discussing or learning about. I found some groups on FB, but they were all filled with immature students who spoiled the experiences for me, or they were abandoned by adults because there wasn't enough people interested to post on a regular basis. I'm not that much of a joiner anyway, so mini conversations here and there, sprinkled all over my day makes me very happy. I have a lot of friends offline and they are from a wide cross section personality and background wise. I feel like Twitter offers me the same online with others I have never met but would love to talk to if we were to meet in person. The instantaneous gratification of Twitter is what attracted me to it as a replacement for Facebook.

Let’s face it, the best part of FB is the update feed. I loved all the quirky updates, Jack Handy thoughts and nutty jokes my contacts used to type in at any given point in the day. That’s why I was hooked on FB for over a year.

And then I grew tired of the stupid bs that some lazy contacts would substitute for conversation and insight into their daily lives like requests for zombies or Texas hold ‘em games. For that I could go back to ignoring them for decades on end like before I discovered FB. Hee.

At least on Twitter we have half a chance of having some great cross conversations on various topics that you will be required to use your brain to follow. That appeals to me. During the day I like to tune out boring customers with some lively and interesting topics and links I can use to chew up the long hours till I get to go home. I have managed to find a few people to follow on a lot of the various things in my life I’m most interested in discussing or learning about. I found some groups on FB, but they were all filled with immature students who spoiled the experiences for me, or they were abandoned by adults because there wasn’t enough people interested to post on a regular basis.

I’m not that much of a joiner anyway, so mini conversations here and there, sprinkled all over my day makes me very happy. I have a lot of friends offline and they are from a wide cross section personality and background wise. I feel like Twitter offers me the same online with others I have never met but would love to talk to if we were to meet in person.

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