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Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration
WSJdpatton writes "The growth of services like Twitter and Dodgeball, which tie together instant messaging, social networking and wireless communication, elicits mixed feelings in the technology-savvy people who have been their early adopters. Fans say they are a good way to keep in touch with busy friends. But some users are starting to feel 'too' connected, as they grapple with check-in messages at odd hours, higher cellphone bills and the need to tell acquaintances to stop announcing what they're having for dinner."
It sounds like the people interviewed in the article are all newbs: "I probably started removing people the first week," said Ryan Irelan, 31, a Web developer in Raleigh, N.C., who began using Twitter last year. "This constant dinging of updates," he added, "it really just became totally overwhelming. I don't see how anyone could get anything done." ICQ "Uh-oh!" Twitter now hosts more than 30,000 posts a day and has more than 50,000 users, according to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The service is appealing because of its simplicity, said the 30-year old, who formerly worked as a software engineer at a courier-dispatch service. "You find a lot of connection in just the simplest, most mundane updates from your friends," he said. IRC Twitter doesn't charge users for the service, though he said it may charge for additional features in the future. Get them hooked, then charge. It's like crack. "I'm a little annoyed by some of these newbies," said Tara Hunt, a 33-year-old marketer in San Francisco...She removed him (Mr. Scoble) from the list of people whose posts she follows, turned off by his frequent notes about the service itself. "He Twittered about Twitter," she said. That'll teach her to friend people who seem "neat" at first sight. Eric Meyer also had to rethink his online network after experiencing what he calls a "Twitter storm." He and friends found themselves receiving 30 to 40 posts a day from one person musing about what to have for dinner and commercials spotted on television Definitely a newb. "I've blocked people that, say, signed up and just added me because we were acquaintances," he said. "I guess they liked me more than I liked them, and I didn't care to hear about them that frequently." That's why I like the journals on Slashdot. They don't get force-fed to anyone. "We get some people who get very chatty," said Dodgeball co-founder Dennis Crowley Tell me they didn't rely on that for the "we'll start charging you later" approach.
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That is why any "push" technology sucks: You get a lot of chaff and very little wheat.
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
RTFA. The interviewees are in their 30s. So sad.
Back in my day, we called it netiquette. Damn kids. *Swipes at them with his Newton*.
'tis but a scratch.
I was thinking about this while in the shower the other day.
It would be pretty nice (probably not to privacy zealots who don't allow cookies and such) to have one account which routs all forms of communication to you.
For example, instead of giving each person or organization that needs to send you mail your current address you just give them a meta-address and the mail gets routed to you whenever you change your physical address.
And you could have nifty features like aliases that are opaque to the sender, blacklisting, setting up certain media to trigger other media..
That's all i can think of at the moment. And we will call this new technology, Electronic Mail!
Too long. How about...
EMAIL!
SAILING MISHAP
His point:
U.S. wireless companies must make loads of profit, if they are even charging every time you RECEIVE text messages.
The profits made all over the country by these big companies should be taxed. Since they make tons of profit, the government should be getting a whole lot of taxes from these big companies.
If the government gets so much money from these companies, shouldn't the working class have to pay less?
Shouldn't the deficit be going away?
(at least, I think that is what he meant.)
Twitter lets you turn off phone notification completely, or just between certain hours of the day. I personally just check the updates online, or through IM.
Also, Red Hat's Mugshot service lets you aggregate disparate social networking services and get them from a single interface. Makes it much less of a hassle to keep track of friends in various networks.
Michel
Fedora Project Contribut
No. You can't fight corporate greed with higher taxes. They just pass the costs right to their 'customers', and pocket even more. The only way to fight corporate greed is education of the people. Of course, that requires that the people want to learn.... which is exactly why we're all screwed.
Why is it so hot? Where am I going? What am I doing in this handbasket?
What the hell is with this social networking crap? I haven't even talked to my best friend in 3 days. I've gone months without talking to him, for no particular reason than I just didn't have anything of substance to say. People don't need to be updated on what's going on from a moment to moment basis. If my life was that fucking exciting, Discovery would make a documentary about me.
I think this whole period of the internet will be remembered in a decade as another stupid idea up there with refreshing web page chat room/message boards, web pages embedded with ICQ contact panels and GOTO.com search boxes, and web rings. Useless chaff.
Hint :
People shouldn't be charged for something they don't control.
If my ip allocation gets ddos'ed i don't get charged, i didn't request that traffic.
I have a friend who likes sending jokes by sms, or mms i don't want to get charged for that,
Sender pays is the only fair way