Nouveau annoyances

[ornoth]

1. Facebook apps. All of them. They should all be banned.
    
2. Crossposting all your tweets to your blog. I subscribed to your blog because I want to read your occasional lengthy thoughts. If I want to read your tweets, there’s this really great site called Twitter where I can go to read them!
    
3. Retweets. Same issue: I’m following you because I want to know about you. If I really wanted to hear all about the #worthless #esoteric #crap you follow, don’t you think I would be following it myself? Ever hear of the concept of signal-to-noise ratio?
    
4. Twitter as diversion. Trust me, no one but you wants to read the play-by-play of that intramural soccer game or five-minute updates on your experience at the airport luggage carousel. Tweeting just because you’re bored is a great way to prove to the rest of the world how boring you really are.
    
5. Lack of due diligence. Never ask a community to answer a question you could answer yourself with 15 seconds’ research. Google and Wikipedia can answer almost any question your little mind can formulate in less time than it takes you to post it to a 5,000-member forum.

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[imperator-mei.livejournal.com]

Yes! Yes! Oh my god, yes!

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Eh, I occasionally reply (I guess this is what you mean by a retweet) to people (but not #groups, because I don't belong to any). I try to keep it to a minimum but then...I don't tweet ALL that much anyway.

I feed tweets to FB, which I pretty much don't otherwise use, so that I don't have to update that latter, but I no longer feed them to my LJ because you're right...nobody needs to see that. ;)

And I agree, I hate FB apps. I'll respond to Superpoke and that's it.

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

Nono, retweet's when you take someone else's tweet and post it yourself. In a kinda "I like this" sort of way. But if retweets are 80 percent of what you're posting, then you're just a nonentity. Kinda like memesheep.

I don't see an issue having tweets and FB status be duplicated, since they're essentially the exact same info. Unless, of course, you're retweeting, in which case someone else's tweet doesn't represent anything of you.

[rhillai.livejournal.com]

Ha! Ditto!