Help! I Am Addicted To Twitter!
The instant we (the social networking collective) began to tire of clicking through hundreds of pictures of old high school friends while looking to find a slice of nostalgia or vindication within our beloved Facebook, we were given a shiny new toy. The 140-character got-to-have-it satisfying solution emerged: Twitter. Call it cross-training for social networking enthusiasts, or the super-fast fix. Some of us even turned our backs on our reliable but rather demanding friend Facebook. We cut back on visitation and fed it only status updates, made easily available of course by our new friend Twitter.
Just as my carpal tunnel was starting to fade thanks to a renewed interest in the outdoors and talking to people in person, I decided to jump on the bandwagon. I got on Twitter. Now I'm in it, I'm on it, and I'm all about it. I've got my bright orange background that matches the chair I'm lounging in as my profile pic. Oh yeah, I planned that. Concise cleverness, or at least the attempt, is key when you've got only 140 characters to prove a point with friends and strangers alike. Facebook is the nerdy overblown Harvard know-it-all. Twitter is the fast cool friend who gives just what you want and nothing more. I'm addicted.
10 Reasons you know you're addicted to Twitter
1. You know what at least 3 people you don't know had for breakfast.
2. You're obsessed with how many followers you have or don't have and possess a master plan for getting your numbers up.
3. You search popular news sites just to link information that makes you look smart.
4. You spend more than 2 minutes planning out the cleverness of each tweet and give yourself a hi-5 when you figure out new ways to shrink words.
5. You've got regular Twitter, tweet deck, and twitter mobile for complete uninterrupted professional tweeting.
6. You get in frequent back and forth Twitter arguments over senseless topics that you actually don't care about. This starts to enter your real life.
7. Twitter is your home page.
8. You paid the Wi-Fi fee on Virgin America so you could get extra cool points by tweeting at 36,000 feet. It's the new 5 mile high club.
9. You've already tweeted about this post.
10. You've tweeted at least 3 times before getting to #10.
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My father had passed. I spoke at his memorial service and shared hugs and tears and laughs. Then went home to work and my grief.
Then a card arrived in the mail. A friend I hadn't seen in a long while wrote to my expressing her care for me.
She made me FEEL good. Now that my friends is something to try.
Send a card to a friend in the old US Mail and tell them your appreciate them.
Wow Church really Blasted Tara, but anyway, I'm sure he didn't mean it. I kind of been feeling bad though myself over all this computer love going around. I thought I was addicted to the FB because I'm older with kids don't have a lot of cash to burn and more downtime than the average youngin. But now I see a lot of my nieces and nephews or just younger friends and cousins spending a lot of time on FB and Tweeting and I'm thinking when I was whatever (15-30) I was constantly on the move in the street hanging or on the basketball court or gym or bar or club. I think you get where I'm going, people we need to be more in tune with each other and that truly is only going to happen in person. IMHO
The correct term is TWADDICTED. There are many of us. Don't worry, you are not alone.
Hugs and Kisses,
@MissBeckala, a self-professed TWADICT.
What is twitter? Is it Facebook Light? Seems like just another toy to keep people occupied so they won't think about the damage the government and its corporate allies continues to wrought on humanity.
You sounds like Noam Chomsky.
And apparently, I cannot conjugate my verbs correctly: You sound like Noam Chomsky.
in sociological terms, it's another item that alienates people from other people -- from intimate contact --- it is really a mixture of blogging, live journal & boredom.
i for one do not subscribe to such antics. i like to be abreast of situations as soon as anyone, but not to the extent of wondering when fred savage is going to make a wonder years comeback...it's inconsequential.
Why does it alienate people from intimate contact? Just curious.
Erm, maybe we need Twitaholics anonymous? Discovery is my crack-cocaine ;p (maybe I should tweet about this...)
See Tara Stiles's Profile
Follow @spinchange on twitter if you know what's good for you!
Tara, hope you get an acting job soon.
I am a young guy that you would expect to be on twitter, but I am not, why?
Well because as the author basically describes it has no point. Who has the time in their life to sit around crafting the perfect 140 description about what they had for lunch with the hopes that someone will read it, and with the arrogance to assume that anyone even cares.
I will admit Twitter allows people to do what a lot of people like to do: talk about themselves. Except this way friends dont have to pretend their listening by nodding their head now and again as you ramble on about your dog/lunch/ or paper football they just made.
I am still on facebook because it has a purpose, it allows me to stay connected to my friends. It allows friends to know MEANINGFUL information from my life, and me about theirs.
If I had a pathetic amount to time to waste and was full of myself enough to think people were interested in the random crap we all say or do in our day, then I would join Twitter. Until then, I will try and use my my free time maintaining meaningful communication in my free time, and stay sociable in the REAL WORLD through the help of facebook.
It's nothing like what the author described.
Thank you churchhill!
Twitter is just another way to masturbate ones ego. There will be another one along soon.
The more I hear it advertised, the more I realize it is being fed to all of us thru the e-media.
It was Facebook before this, and MySpace before that. Stand by one.........
Right, it's the New Narcissim. Thankfully it's easy to ignore.
I'm addicted to Twitter & none of those apply to me. Matter of fact, if ppl just talk about what they are eating, I'm not going to follow them. We talk about news, current events, things we see on the news. I've sent David Shuster a link & he used it on his show. He frequently talks back & forth with you, as does Jake Tapper, Mike Madden of Salon, Oliver Knox, Christina Bellantoni. I have a large group of regular political people like myself that I talk to daily.
I've tweeted reporters sitting in on the Sotomayer hearings and received responses while they are in the room.
This article totally misses the point....
You're right about Facebook, very puffed up.
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Remember Introduction to Psychology in college along with free association? Nothing came of it then & we moved on & now, free association using a tiny piece of technology, continues to amount to nothing.
The invention of writing changed civilization. The translation and printing of the bible did. Personal computers did. The internet did. Huffpo did.
And facebook and twitter won't be any different.
But note that some people remained unaffected by each of these inventions, for centuries. And those may well have saved the world from informational heat death, every once in a while.
I still don't know the question to which the appropriate answer is 42. But I do know that the Flying Spaghetti Monster itself wouldn't bother about using a mode of communication that's based on a limit on the number of characters locked in at 140.
This isn't just informational heat death. This is rape.
I can tell one way I'm not addicted to Twitter! I don't use the stupid thing. Who cares what people are doing 24/7. What a waste of digital technology, imho.
#s 9 and 10 should be replaced as follows:
9. You're a member of the GOP
10. You're an actor
Re: #6 LOL -- isn't that cyberspace in general?
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