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Everyone and their monkey is doing Twitter these days. Norm MacDonald has thrown his hat into the sea of hats:

Norm MacDonald

He's the funniest one I'm following so far.

Are any of you on there?

This place is about as much online posting as I can handle. I don't face, twit, or space out

I just joined facebook.......already outdated by Twitter?
Reminds me of my Audio hobby.

I don't twitter or myspace, and I was sort of "forced" into facebook about a year and a half ago. I volunteer with Jr High and Sr High kids on Wednesday nights, and since a lot of them were on Facebook, we agreed that the adults should be too to try to be in the same "world" as the kids...


Most of the time I find it just a lot, and I mean a LOT, of crap to weed through. Do people really want to know what everyone else is thinking or posting? I know that I skip a lot of it. I am, however, hooked on Mafia Wars which keeps me on facebook multiple times a day just to bank my money, and rob people, plus the normal "jobs" that need to be done.... Take out a mob boss, etc...

I shure as hell don't. Though, JP's lunch reports were interesting for a while.

I joined Facebook about 6 months ago because everyone around me wouldn't stop incessantly chatting about how awesome it was. While it was interesting to re-meet many of my old high school associates, that's about the extent of it. Hey, yeah, glad you're an attorney - amusing since you were in detention more than class. Yeah, glad you blew out a few kids and have found Jesus, especially since you were the one that used to spray paint pentagrams around the school. I really don't care that your cat just threw up. Honestly.

And don't even get me started on Twitter. I think it's the prelude to the downfall of our civilization. My feelings are that it's nothing more than a narcissistic ego trip for feeble-minded individuals. Everyone's a celebrity! Not. I was especially appalled when all of the mainstream media thought it was cool that all of the representatives were Twittering at Obama's address a few weeks ago. Hey! How about PAYING ATTENTION rather than sending Tweets to your Peeps, "OMG LOL! GR8 NWS ABT BUDGT! WOOT!!" Spare me.

But hey, what do I know. The guys that started Facebook and Twitter are millionaires, so apparently they've tapped into something!

Get off my lawn.

Yeah, I fail to see any lasting appeal so far (re: Twitter). It surprises me how many people are announcing they're on Twitter lately. I suppose it's a sure sign of the death of the attention span. People don't want to take the time to read or write anything substantial, so Twitter to the rescue. I suppose if you're fixated on an individual and they're a frequent updater, though, that it works out for you.

I'm on Facebook, but not Twitter or Myspace. There's a few of us Axiomites on Facebook: pmbuko, kcarlile, CV, sonicfox, nickbuol, Adamp88, Efalardeau, and tomtuttle are the ones I know of. Real names have been omitted to protect the innocent.

Facebook, to me, is an overall positive. The pros of getting back in contact with desired old friends, sharing photos, and offering opinions and jokes outweigh the cons of seeing all kinds of crap details about/by your distant friends, as PeterC alludes to.

I have to say, however, that I am increasingly pissed off at those "IQ" quizzes that are springing up EVERYWHERE. Facebook is rife with them. Every page seems to load with a claim that two of my friends scored 'this' and 'that' (usually 127 and 119) - "Can you beat them?"

Well, yes, probably, but that's not the point. First, these sites are fraudulently throwing out fake numbers, such as "Obama's IQ = 125", "Bush's IQ = 120", "Average Red Sox fan = 116", etc. Lies, fraud, shenanigans! Second, what these things are is NOT legitimate IQ tests, of course. Hopefully most people realize this, and, if so, then sure go ahead and play your silly little games and have some fun. Just realize that the numbers generated mean nothing. No validity, nada. Leave the real IQ testing to psychologists.

(end rant)

*sigh*


JP forgot about me. . . .

ooh, burn...