Twitterpated, but not in the GOOD way.
December 16, 2008 · Print This Article
Lately, Twitter Tweets have been giving me that desperate feeling usually reserved for those times when I walk into a room mid-conversation and I’m forced to go into Obnoxious Question-Asker mode, all, “Wait. What are we talking about?” and “WHO stepped on WHAT?! Gum? Your last nerve? Huh?!” and “Congratulations for what?! Thank you for WHAT?!”, or when I’m late for a movie and I’m like, “Who’s that guy?” and “Wait. Why is that chick dressed like a hooker?” and “But how do you KNOW she’s a hooker? Did someone say?” and everyone is all, “SHUT UP!” and I’m like, “But I just want to know what the HELL is going ON HERE!”
Don’t get me wrong. I have no issues with the bombardment of the minutiae of my friends’ lives. It’s fun to see what people can squeeze into 140 characters! I’m all about the 140 character challenge! Go brevity! BRING IT! No, it’s the @ replies that are killing me. Softly.
In moderation, fine. If I see “@bff You wish! Tell her she can STEP OFF me!” I can scroll down or follow a link to find the beginning of the conversation. I’m not high maintenance! I can roll with it! Honestly. If I am totally curious as to WHY a certain person is thanking another person for… something, or why another person is passionately defending… someone, for, you know… something, I can take a moment to backtrack. I know it isn’t all about me! I can be flexible! But lately? I’m seeing half a conversation EVERY OTHER TWEET–I kid you not!–which is TAXING on my latent Obnoxious Question-Asker tendencies! TAXING, I tell you! Because I just want to know what the HELL is going ON THERE! And where’s the fun in THAT?! It’s like listening in on someone’s phone conversation, except without the giddy, naughty, voyeuristically satisfying part! Which, hello? No fun? At ALL?!
In my humble, yet totally valid opinion, if people feel as if they need to have an open, involved, and generally LOOOOONG conversation with a particular user, especially when the conversation grows cryptic or, oh, let’s say ACRIMONIOUS, well, that is what the DM option is for. Or, you know, EMAIL. I’m only saying.
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I am so glad you worte about this. I do the same thing which is why I do not use twitter too often.
And then how about when people assume you use twitter all the time and they expect you to know something that was put out there but hey who has time to check Older entries….you know…and they are all like…How could you not know that it was on twitter…
I may…may…use twitter when my give birth and do a play by play…may.
well i agree, but sometimes I wish people would Twitter more often so I know what is going on their lives, I now have found blogs to be too much for me to read. 140 lines? Totally doable.
Meh, honestly it doesn’t bother me when people do that. Though I will admit that if there is a lengthy @whoever conversation happening I just skip past the bulk of it. Of course I only follow 28 people so I usually only have a page or two of updates to catch up on at any given time.
I hear ya,Cat. This post makes me want to see the CatCast about the cell phones in the bathroom. Repost!repost!repost! *pumps fist*