Do you Twitter?

[MN Dave]

I'm old school and still enjoy a good message board community.

[DavidW]

I'm old school and still enjoy a good message board community.

Old school (going back in time):
* message board
* email list
* letters
* actual face to face meetings

We've gone from meaningful conversations in person to meaningless twitter updates in less than twenty years!

[karlhenning]

Old school (going back in time):
* message board
* email list
* letters
* actual face to face meetings

We've gone from meaningful conversations in person to meaningless twitter updates in less than twenty years!

Just had a lovely lunch with an actual person ; )

[DavidW]

Just had a lovely lunch with an actual person ; )

Make sure you twitter about that (I don't know how you say that, do you twit?).

[MN Dave]

Tweet.

Or is it "twat"?

[DavidW]

Tweet.

Or is it "twat"?

Yeah twat that twaddle!

[MN Dave]

Message board forums are about community, whereas Facebook and Twitter seem to be mainly about one's self.

[DavidW]

Message board forums are about community, whereas Facebook and Twitter seem to be mainly about one's self.

Have you seen Saul's thread? jeje

[MN Dave]

Have you seen Saul's thread? jeje

Well, yeah...

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

I'm old school and still enjoy a good message board community.

Bah. Real old skoolers populate the Usenet, still...
Well I tweet sometimes as classical59192, but Twitter basically is only about dick sizes (# of followers). I'm following Karl now. I'm a dick extender.

[Superhorn]

   I just started tweeting yesterday.  I'm mrclassicalmusi   here (no c).

[MN Dave]

Ugh. Twitter...

[Gurn Blanston]

Bah. Real old skoolers populate the Usenet, still...
Well I tweet sometimes as classical59192, but Twitter basically is only about dick sizes (# of followers). I'm following Karl now. I'm a dick extender.

I'm thinking that a less graphic metaphor might be in order if this discussion intends to continue. Perhaps some clever little euphemism might be in order... 

[Franco]

Posting in the What are you listening to? thread is the closest I want to get to anything like Twitter.  And I don't even like posting what I'm listening to.  My goal is to be online less and less until one day I am not online at all.

[MN Dave]

I'm thinking that a less graphic metaphor might be in order if this discussion intends to continue. Perhaps some clever little euphemism might be in order... 

This from the guy with the banana-exposing-his-bits image. 

[Gurn Blanston]

This from the guy with the banana-exposing-his-bits image. 

It's a banana, Dave...   And a good euphemism, I might add.

I find verbal imagery so much more compelling, don't you?

[MN Dave]

It's a banana, Dave...   And a good euphemism, I might add.

I find verbal imagery so much more compelling, don't you?

I have been traumatized by that image on several occasions. 

[karlhenning]

I have been traumatized by that image on several occasions. 

And to think that Gurn only brought it forth to cater to the zombie crowd! : )

[MN Dave]

And to think that Gurn only brought it forth to cater to the zombie crowd! : )

I don't think GMG has a zombie "crowd".

[DavidW]

I don't think GMG has a zombie "crowd".

Have you seen the size of the Pettersson thread?