What are your thoughts on social media?

[Gurn Blanston]

Yes they really only want the idiots. Like the Trump and Clinton campaigns.

Ah, must be "Desperate-to-be-cynical Monday", eh Ken? 

[San Antone]

I am using Twitter in the same manner as Gurn, i.e. to promote my music blog.  However, I cannot boast of a similar marketing juggernaut.

[Karl Henning]

Hahahahahahaha

Oblivious to the irony of being the barren wasteland he makes a show of decrying . . . .

[Rinaldo]

I don't get why Twitter exists, either. It's just like facebook, but... more limiting.

A quick transmission of thoughts, moods, images, haikus.. et cetera, et cetera. Twitter can be stupid jokes, beautiful poems, idiotic shouting, surreal juxtapositions, the Arab Spring. The limits are what makes it special. It's simple, immediate. And in the case of interesting users, well, interesting! I use it more like a newsfeed, but for much more than just news.

[North Star]

It's a waste of time, and ultimately stupid meaningless crap.

Much like any communication with people who would tweet about their breakfast, regardless of the medium.

[Gurn Blanston]

It's a waste of time, and ultimately stupid meaningless crap.

Nothing like what I see here, often... 

[Gurn Blanston]

I don't know if I'd go that far .. but I'd be wary of folks who are overly occupied/obsessive with so-called "social media".

Goes without saying. I'm wary of people who are overly obsessed with anything!   

[Brian]

Goes without saying. I'm wary of people who are overly obsessed with anything!   

Aside from Papa Haydn 

[Gurn Blanston]

Aside from Papa Haydn 

Or Stockhausen for that matter. If people didn't have an above average interest in certain topics, no book would ever be written (or read). That is far below the level of obsession, although I do appreciate your humor...

[Karl Henning]

Too much Haydn ain't enough!

[jochanaan]

Oblivious to the irony of being the barren wasteland he makes a show of decrying . . . .

Karl, it's not fair to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. (Sorry, James; I jest calls 'em as I sees 'em.)

[Super Blood Moon]

It's amaaazing!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

It's boooring!

[drogulus]

    Many makers of custom guitars, amps and parts do business on FB. I don't need a FB account to go to their pages. That's how I found my Pink Pinecaster, a picture on the FB page of a guitar maker. It wasn't on his website. When I was researching a Vox "Washington D.C." clone I had no website to go to so I found the FB link on a forum.

    I don't use social media. It's not a "what's the world coming to?" thing. I get plenty of baby and cat pictures through a trusted intermediary.

[71 dB]

Well, hell, man, you are only allowed 140 characters in a message. How much content do you suppose you can put into 2 lines? 

PS - the tweet of mine you quoted had 139, IIRC...

My random selection of you, Kesha and David Duchovny (yes, I'm, sooo exited about The X-Files Revival!) was to demonstrate how Twitter makes different people look similar. I didn't know about the 140 characters limit (why limit when our devices have gigabytes if not terabytes of storage capacity? One long well-thought message instead of 20 short pointless messages would be nice.

How could I say what I said above using only 140 characters? Most of my BS is much longer than 140 characters!

[Ken B]

My random selection of you, Kesha and David Duchovny (yes, I'm, sooo exited about The X-Files Revival!) was to demonstrate how Twitter makes different people look similar. I didn't know about the 140 characters limit (why limit when our devices have gigabytes if not terabytes of storage capacity? One long well-thought message instead of 20 short pointless messages would be nice.

How could I say what I said above using only 140 characters? Most of my BS is much longer than 140 characters!

You should learn from that Sibelius fellow. What he could do in 140 characters was stunning! 

[Karl Henning]

It's amaaazing!

It's boooring!

It can be both!

[Gurn Blanston]

My random selection of you, Kesha and David Duchovny (yes, I'm, sooo exited about The X-Files Revival!) was to demonstrate how Twitter makes different people look similar. I didn't know about the 140 characters limit (why limit when our devices have gigabytes if not terabytes of storage capacity? One long well-thought message instead of 20 short pointless messages would be nice.

How could I say what I said above using only 140 characters? Most of my BS is much longer than 140 characters!

Getting your message across with that sort of constraint is a self-discipline exercise. You learn to either pare things down to their essentials or else cheat creatively. I prefer not to cheat, so I have to think hard for every post on how to say what I want without extra baggage. Hell, there are few people, who, left unchecked, are wordier than me!   

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

A lot of people seem to be complaining about the 140 character limit. Well, I usually use it just as a caption for a photo or a brief description of something that is fleshed out fully in a link I provide. I treat Twitter more like a news sharing thing, what's going on currently in classical music in my area, what compositions I'm writing or what works of mine are being performed. Who I follow are usually composers, conductors, orchestras, radio stations etc. to see quickly what's going on. I have no interest in reading bullshit.

[North Star]

I have no interest in reading bullshit.

I'm sure that if you polled everyone on the Internet, most people would say they agree. The definition of bullshit might vary, though.

(You should start your thread in the composition subforum.)