Twitter

[astroron (Ron)]

What is the value of Twitter, Facebook, and My space?
Why do people want every Tom, Dick, and Mary to know all their business
What got me thinking about this was this article on the BBC website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8204842.stm

[Rod66 (Rod)]

Interesting phenomenon isn't it. But the real power in social media is in harnessing all those thoughts and opinions that people happily post with gay abandon. The marketing power potentially outweighs anything that has come before in the history of mankind. Being able to target a particular group and sell them what they like the most... its a sales lead generator's dream..

Google Wave is coming....

[astroron (Ron)]

I read an article that twitters where conned by Hugh Jackman, they thought he was doing the Twittering when it turned out it was his office

[renormalised (Carl)]

It's social commentary and voyeurism writ large and gone mad...as invaluable as it can be in some situations, it's also going to come back and bite many a poster hard on their collective rears.

Quite frankly, I fail to see the need to advertise myself all over the net, and wanting every TD&H knowing all about me. It's a particularly young person's phenomenon...this wish to be "out there" and wanted by everyone. The net is not the most wholesome of places to be trying to find one's place in the world, on. Especially for young people, and critically so for teenagers, as a great many of them have little or no critical people skills to begin with. That many more of them aren't preyed upon by some of the knuckle dragging gutter trash that seems to be attracted to the net like bugs to a bright light, is more a matter of luck than good management.

[MrB (Simon)]

Twitter is full of twits.

MySpace is soooo yesterday (apparently), never used it.

Facebook on the other hand is great for me to keep in touch with friends and family living overseas, and I have control over who see's what.
But overall it's not much better than the other two.

And no, I don't understand the whole thing with people telling other people what they're doing now..... and now...... and now..... and now.....

[astroron (Ron)]

MySpace is soooo yesterday (apparently), never used it.
I was wondering if it is still going

[Octane (Humayun)]

This article is getting a little older now, however, I am glad that I'm not alone in the world when it comes to F*c*b**k.

Maybe it's paranoia, but, if I want to keep in touch with friends, I call them, email them, or SMS them. If I want to organise an event, I do the same. If I want to share my photos, I email them links to my website/galleries. If I'm not in touch with people I grew up with anymore, there's a reason for it -- I was obviously not friendship material, and neither were they.

For a lot of people, it's a status thing -- "I have 2 million friends!" Grow up. They're not your friends. They're people you barely know from a bar of soap. I can count my friends on the fingers of one hand.

Edit: I forgot to mention, F*c*b**k is actually a worldwide problem in business. Employees, instead of getting paid to do work, are getting paid to refresh spacebook. And, lastly, someone I know works in an executive IT recruitment firm, and they told me that it is nowadays standard practise amongst all firms to visit a potential employee's spacebook and see what kind of riff raff they hang out or associate with.

But, hey, if it works for you and makes you happy, more power to you.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...an/14/facebook

Regards,
Humayun

[Jules76 (Julian)]

Originally Posted by MrB

Facebook on the other hand is great for me to keep in touch with friends and family living overseas, and I have control over who see's what.

I agree. I use it to keep in contact with friends/family who are interstate/overseas. It's also helped me to get back in contact with people I use to go to school with which has been great.

Never used the other two and to be honest I don't use Facebook that often, and definately not everyday like some people I know.

[marki]

My observations based on my students goes as follows.

My space = year 8 - 10.
Facebook = year 11.
Facebook and twitter = year 12.

All along they will race home to communicate with each other via msn rather then simply walking next door to say hello . I think they feel bullet proof behind a key board. What is scary is how seriously they take these sites. It is their whole world and image is the only thing that counts.

I visted my sister and brother in law on the weekend. My young nephew Sam (year 11) was having a guitar solo competition with one of his school mates. Were they siting side by side having a classic jam??? No both were logged into msn web cams and all and had their phones next to the amps (naked DSL). They would take turns at trying to out do each other thus claiming the title of supreme guitar virtuoso . Funniest thing was the other kid lives directly across the road .

Mark

[renormalised (Carl)]

And there you go....precisely because of this disconnection, they're going to acquire even less people skills than they would otherwise have. The world is screwed up enough as it is without breeding a generation that can't have a face to face conversation without turning into blithering idiots.

[MrB (Simon)]

Originally Posted by Octane

I can count my friends on the fingers of one hand.

I can do that with my facebook friends too

[Enchilada]

Twitter can't be all that bad!

Twitter is basically free and seemingly powerful. It is as the U.K.'s Mr. Brown M.P. and his lovely wife has made a political support for the British health NHS - the so drones at the BBC media must try to negate it! I.e. "Browns join Twitter war over NHS"; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8199615.stm

I.e. "The Twitter campaign has attracted more than a million followers and thousands of messages of support - including tweets from Sarah Brown, who wrote welovetheNHS "more than words can say", Health Secretary Andy Burnham and former deputy prime minister John Prescott."

IMO, only a twit would believe anything said by the British media - even the BBC or the dummies on the noon ABC News which keep pumping this propaganda. Massaging the sick insipid view of Brits, who incidentally still have to pay £142.50 (£48 for black and white) for a mean legal TV license* (a very stupid tax) to the draconian "Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport". How so passe!!

Really. "What is the value of Twitter, Facebook, and My space?" In the Brits place. Priceless!

Stop posting BBC / UK propaganda, Ron.

Please!! :

Brits are really twits!!

* Disgustingly, licences are half price for the legally blind. They should be damn well free!!

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[matt]

"A study conducted by a US market research firm says 40 per cent of the messages on Twitter are pointless babble .. along the lines of "I am eating a sandwich now".

Pear Analytics .. based in San Antonio, Texas .. says it randomly sampled two thousand messages from the public stream of Twitter .. and separated them into six categories.

The categories were: news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and pass-along value.

PEAR says pointless babble accounted for 811 "tweets" .. or 40.55 per cent of the total number of messages sampled."

[iceman (Mike)]

I use Twitter and Facebook - facebook more so than twitter.

For twitter, it really depends what you're trying to get out of it and who you choose to follow. I've picked up heaps of great info from twitter and it's a great place to share and make new friends, like any "community" of sorts.

Using the right tools to help filter the signal from the noise definitely helps (like using TweetDeck to group your followers).

[AlexN]

I've never used either, I did have a myspace account for all of maybe 6 months three years ago.. After arguements with friends over "why am i number 8 in your friends list?" and "why is he higher on your friends list than me" I deleted my accout...

I agree Ron, Why advertise your personal life on the internet.

Alex

[JethroB76 (Jeff)]

Originally Posted by matt

"A study conducted by a US market research firm says 40 per cent of the messages on Twitter are pointless babble ..

Got a feeling they're underestimating there

[matt]

Originally Posted by JethroB76

Got a feeling they're underestimating there

I think that's just the babble.

I would say when you add the spam and (mostly pathetic) self-promotion...you'd be somewhere up toward 90+ percent

[bloodhound31]

Originally Posted by Octane

If I'm not in touch with people I grew up with anymore, there's a reason for it -- I was obviously not friendship material, and neither were they.

For a lot of people, it's a status thing -- "I have 2 million friends!" Grow up. They're not your friends. They're people you barely know from a bar of soap. I can count my friends on the fingers of one hand.

But, hey, if it works for you and makes you happy, more power to you.

Regards,
Humayun

Mate, you and I think very much alike.

Baz.

[Liz]

Originally Posted by Jules76

I agree. I use it to keep in contact with friends/family who are interstate/overseas. It's also helped me to get back in contact with people I use to go to school with which has been great.
Never used the other two and to be honest I don't use Facebook that often, and definately not everyday like some people I know.

I agree Jules ... I use Facebook a little - its also a great way of finding out whats going on with my neices and nephews, which I wouldnt usually get to know.
I dont use it as much with my goodfriends, but the next level of friends and rels, and old friends you havent seen for awhile.
Lots of fun
Some people carry on a bit .... and you can always 'remove friends' if they get a bit annoying.

[iceman (Mike)]

The "Hide" dropdown on the facebook news feed is my best friend.

All those quizes, be gone!