It's free, sign up, see if you use it. I read way more than I post to it. I use it for news/journalists mostly. I've been trying to post more because I think I'm funnier than I am, and assume my 20 followers want to hear about it.
Figure out if there are people you want to follow on Twitter, or if you'd be more likely to make a tweet than a Facebook or Tumblr post. For me the answer is "yes" to both, but I'm not sure it would be for you.
Well, I know Twitter's got FB integration now so you can just post to Twitter and it'll update your FB status. I have a few friends who do that. I don't use Twitter, but I do find myself reading some peoples' because they can be entertaining (Weird Al, Jim Carrey, etc) or even a decent way to keep up on news with games. I think I'd mirror what CS said, sign up, see if you like how it works and if you use it. If not, just delete it or let it rot.
Twitter could be a lot of fun for you from conventions and stuff, where you can send something quick off on the fly and it's like we're there with you!
I will follow you and critique your Twitter style*.Okay, so consensus is to give it a go. Now the hard part...choosing a username!! Do I go classic with Kags or use my actual name? I don't even know...
Good opportunity to try out Foxodendron? (Wait, I'm not sure that was it. I thought it'd be fun to combine Fox and Toxicodendron (Poison Ivy), and then you shortened it somehow...)Okay, so consensus is to give it a go. Now the hard part...choosing a username!! Do I go classic with Kags or use my actual name? I don't even know...
Indeed.I like instagram and twitter! HA!
No, I don't like it mostly because I abhor most social media because it is one of the leading contributors to the "always connected, never invested, drowning in information while starving for knowledge" cancer eating away at western civilization every day. Twitter egregiously so because its format appeals to the attention deficit and reinforces their scatterbrained dysfunctions and has all the informative value of shouting in a crowded sports arena while wearing a diving helmet. Hollering into the darkness at no-one and everyone. And then Instagram trowels on an extra layer of pretentiousness and drops the already-loose literacy requirement.
I am here: Garbledina
Not for long, Twitter announced today they are killing Tweetdeck and discontinuing Facebook integration.
I agree with some of what you're saying. There is something of an inherent self-aggrandising, shortsighted, distracted nature to, well, all social media. And, a not insignificant amount of Twitter is noise. I contest the idea, however, that it can't help you be invested or be a source for knowledge. Following news organisations can be useful, but redundant (go to their sites, put them on an RSS reader; I still nonetheless follow several) but following journalists can be really very awesome. They'll talk about things as they happen, possibly make mention of stuff that doesn't get put in their articles, etc. Additionally it is possible to sort out a conversation or follow people who provide amusement or interest and get something out of that.
Personally, I like seeing photos of tasty food, but I can see how someone would think that's pointless. The real reason for Instagram, filters aside, is to share snippets of your life quickly and easily with friends. I like seeing photos of friends right after they've run a marathon, or from their vacation. I love seeing beautiful sunsets, and goofy faces mugging for the camera. I want to see images from the lives of people who are important to me.
The G stands for Gusto.
Facilitating the ease of subjecting others to vacation snapshots in and of itself should be enough to damn Instagram in charges of crimes against humanity.DarkAudit. Always DarkAudit wherever I post.
I don't apologize for using instagram. Was super effective at posting my DC vacation pics to most of my other sites in one go.
