Comments on: Why Use Twitter? http://www.kurtjarchow.com/2009/02/11/why-use-twitter/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: jarchowk http://www.kurtjarchow.com/2009/02/11/why-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-31 jarchowk Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:42:26 +0000 http://jarchowk.wordpress.com/?p=136#comment-31 I agree with you, 100%. I don't care what my friend's ate for breakfast... but I do care when they've found an interesting article and what they think of it, or I do care about that sale on laptops they saw at Best Buy. I also want them to care about an opinion I have on a subject and get feedback. I have dozens of thoughts throughout the day that more or less forgotten by the time I hit the pillow; in a collaborative environment maybe some of those thoughts could actually amount to something. It's funny, there is nothing more mundane about people conversing, and there is nothing more powerful at the same time. I think Facebook falls under the 1st, and hopefully Friendfeed will fall under the latter. I agree with you, 100%. I don’t care what my friend’s ate for breakfast… but I do care when they’ve found an interesting article and what they think of it, or I do care about that sale on laptops they saw at Best Buy.

I also want them to care about an opinion I have on a subject and get feedback. I have dozens of thoughts throughout the day that more or less forgotten by the time I hit the pillow; in a collaborative environment maybe some of those thoughts could actually amount to something.

It’s funny, there is nothing more mundane about people conversing, and there is nothing more powerful at the same time. I think Facebook falls under the 1st, and hopefully Friendfeed will fall under the latter.

]]> By: OldManIn2D http://www.kurtjarchow.com/2009/02/11/why-use-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-30 OldManIn2D Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:57:52 +0000 http://jarchowk.wordpress.com/?p=136#comment-30 As successful as social 'services' (which I will define as social websites that provide a social service such as twitter/friendfeed, but not social websites such as facebook) are, they use a perfect solution approach ('IF everybody used them, everbody would experience exponential benefits') that I think will ultimately be their downfall. As valuable as these social networks have the potential to be, they can only solve social problems which to be frank, I am not interested in; I'm a guy, I don't care what you're currently doing, what your eating for dinner, nor do I care about what you've been reading. As a software programmer I spend 10% of my day on Google looking at other solutions that I might use/learn from. This is a non-social problem that I don't see being solved by these 'social services', but I do hear the hype saying it will. If this was the case, then I might be more prone to use these tools, but as it stands I gain nothing. As successful as social ’services’ (which I will define as social websites that provide a social service such as twitter/friendfeed, but not social websites such as facebook) are, they use a perfect solution approach (’IF everybody used them, everbody would experience exponential benefits’) that I think will ultimately be their downfall.

As valuable as these social networks have the potential to be, they can only solve social problems which to be frank, I am not interested in; I’m a guy, I don’t care what you’re currently doing, what your eating for dinner, nor do I care about what you’ve been reading.

As a software programmer I spend 10% of my day on Google looking at other solutions that I might use/learn from. This is a non-social problem that I don’t see being solved by these ’social services’, but I do hear the hype saying it will. If this was the case, then I might be more prone to use these tools, but as it stands I gain nothing.

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