Comments on: Weekend update on social networking http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/ Eric Cheng's Journal Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:26:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: tammy http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-815142 tammy Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:49:31 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-815142 <p>this post makes me laugh. i'm right there with you on the social networking sites... just not as harsh.</p> this post makes me laugh. i’m right there with you on the social networking sites… just not as harsh.

]]> By: Chester http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-768445 Chester Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:12:02 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-768445 <p>Personally, I think the most useful purpose for Twitter would be if one had a selective circle who only used it for announcing whereabouts when anticipating free time and wanting to see who else might be around and also with free time. Like..."In the city today...drinks after 5PM?" sort of thing. Would help cut down on all the times one regretfully discovers that one attended, unknowingly, the same concert as another friend, or was eating lunch alone while just blocks away from a friend doing the same.</p> Personally, I think the most useful purpose for Twitter would be if one had a selective circle who only used it for announcing whereabouts when anticipating free time and wanting to see who else might be around and also with free time. Like…”In the city today…drinks after 5PM?” sort of thing. Would help cut down on all the times one regretfully discovers that one attended, unknowingly, the same concert as another friend, or was eating lunch alone while just blocks away from a friend doing the same.

]]> By: echeng http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-754144 echeng Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:29:45 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-754144 <p>Hey, Chester. You're right -- I post to Twitter because it is designed for short messages. I can post from anywhere in the world, in just a few seconds, and it shows up on my home page, Facebook page, and twitter feed. But what twitter is good for is offering the option of reading in various formats, including ones that are pushed to you. I also like having time associated with specific tweets. I know that the person wrote whatever it is that they are broadcasting just moments before I received it.</p> <p>I agree, though, that delivery via SMS is annoying, especially from people with whom you are incompatible (within the social network, I mean). I only follow a few people via SMS; I read the rest of my twitter friends via an app on my desktop.</p> Hey, Chester. You’re right — I post to Twitter because it is designed for short messages. I can post from anywhere in the world, in just a few seconds, and it shows up on my home page, Facebook page, and twitter feed. But what twitter is good for is offering the option of reading in various formats, including ones that are pushed to you. I also like having time associated with specific tweets. I know that the person wrote whatever it is that they are broadcasting just moments before I received it.

I agree, though, that delivery via SMS is annoying, especially from people with whom you are incompatible (within the social network, I mean). I only follow a few people via SMS; I read the rest of my twitter friends via an app on my desktop.

]]> By: Chester http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-754120 Chester Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:19:00 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-754120 <p>Twitter seems useful in that it offers an alternate means of posting -- via SMS -- but I think it's useless as a means of reading/receiving posts. The signal-to-noise ratio is way too low and unbelievably annoying if you're getting alerts on your phone from even one or two people. If I had a big Twitter network and got them delivered on my phone, I probably would've thrown my phone out of a window by now. I do appreciate reading people's feeds, from time to time, via their websites, but...that just means that it's a convenience to the poster, and not the reader.</p> Twitter seems useful in that it offers an alternate means of posting — via SMS — but I think it’s useless as a means of reading/receiving posts. The signal-to-noise ratio is way too low and unbelievably annoying if you’re getting alerts on your phone from even one or two people. If I had a big Twitter network and got them delivered on my phone, I probably would’ve thrown my phone out of a window by now. I do appreciate reading people’s feeds, from time to time, via their websites, but…that just means that it’s a convenience to the poster, and not the reader.

]]> By: Heidi http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-753759 Heidi Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:04:03 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/2007/12/03/weekend-update-2/#comment-753759 <p><i>frog-licking applications</i></p> <p>Hmmm. I gots to get me one of them.</p> <p>I tried to sign-up for the twitter thing last night, but I'm not very smart and can't figure it out on my own. Was going to call you since you're Twitter God but I'm glad I didn't since then you would have typed this journal entry at 4:30 instead of 3:30AM. (Assuming I'm not <i>that</i> blonde that it wouldn't take more than an hour)</p> frog-licking applications

Hmmm. I gots to get me one of them.

I tried to sign-up for the twitter thing last night, but I’m not very smart and can’t figure it out on my own. Was going to call you since you’re Twitter God but I’m glad I didn’t since then you would have typed this journal entry at 4:30 instead of 3:30AM. (Assuming I’m not that blonde that it wouldn’t take more than an hour)

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