Not when I see stuff in the newspaper like I did a year or so ago.
A massive earthquake destroyed half a city and many died. The press immediately search Twitter and come up with some young actress who said "OMG the whole place, like, just shook"

FFS

I thought Facebook was bad enough, but when we are so interested in the minute by minute updates of some other person's banal existence, or media values the Tweeting of some borderline retarded 18 y/o blonde over the stories of the truly affected, society has gone to sh!t.

should be called Bullybook , DiscloseBook , Revealbook geez

Scotty88 said...

Just about every website I look at has twiter. I have noticed that these same websites don't update news,events regularly. They tend to use twiter for updates,etc.
I always thought twiter was for people like Lara Bingle who have lunch at Hugos Manly and post "Just having lunch at Hugo's Manly" like wgaf.
Does anybody rate twitter ?

Yep, have it on my iPhone. Follow some pro surfers and other people of interest. I even got a retweet from Slater. Its actually pretty interesting some of the tweets & pics etc they put up. And good for travelling, you can look back where you were & what you did etc.

Make this the SB Twitter thread?

"I am home having lunch for 30mins."

(as if anyone in the world except for me gives a sh!t)

Anyone else want to post what they are doing that nobody else gives a sh!t about?

Update:
Got the ****s with something on the internet.

Looked at picture of rabbit with pancake on it's head, felt better.

Wondered wtf is with that avatar Mark

Perving at hot chick at photocopier

Back to work now, watch for further updates

#CBreezersDGAF

Yeah just had a smoke afterwards

Mark _australia said...

Yeah just had a smoke afterwards

Strike a match?

Tweeting (think that's what they call it).
Sitting in waiting room awaiting consultation on penile reduction operation.
Serious back pain.

doggie said...

nightmonkey said...

you guys are funny. you all bag social networks which are just public forums and you guys post on here like there's no tomorrow. this place is a public forum in fact this is worse as most on here are anonymous.

Most.

Its like FB in here

exactly

nightmonkey said...

you guys are funny. you all bag social networks which are just public forums and you guys post on here like there's no tomorrow. this place is a public forum in fact this is worse as most on here are anonymous.

Is it possible that I may not be Jen Hawkins ?

Seabreeze is for awesome people....

Twitter is for idiots....

Its all about the demographic....

Scotty88 said...

nightmonkey said...

you guys are funny. you all bag social networks which are just public forums and you guys post on here like there's no tomorrow. this place is a public forum in fact this is worse as most on here are anonymous.

Is it possible that I may not be Jen Hawkins ?

Given your previous post from doctors office - I hope not

There is supposedly 1m accounts of twitter in Australia.

Kevin Rudd has over 1m twitter followers...

A large majority of his follower are from overseas...

You do the math

I think participation in a forum that caters to one's hobby - no it is more than that, lifestyle - is easily understandable.

Thinking that anyone cares about Tweets like "just got to work and traffic was bad" is fkn sad.
Media making front page news out of a bimbo with an I.Q smaller than her bust size saying "OMG whole place just, like, shook" is more sad.
Assuming people know you had a baby, got engaged or somebody died, because you put it on Facebook, is a really sad indictment upon the changes social media has imparted. What happened to real interpersonal relationships?

Ever noticed the Facebook pics of pretty girls in the paper, if they have been involved in a fatal car crash or murdered etc? Social networking enables media to make things more "ooohhh" and "ahhhh" so they love it, and it is leading to even less balanced reporting than we had previously (never thought it possible...). They get the story, then look for social media stuff to boost it up and print it. If an ugly person dies it isn't news anymore?

Mark _australia said...

I think participation in a forum that caters to one's hobby - no it is more than that, lifestyle - is easily understandable.

Thinking that anyone cares about Tweets like "just got to work and traffic was bad" is fkn sad.
Media making front page news out of a bimbo with an I.Q smaller than her bust size saying "OMG whole place just, like, shook" is more sad.
Assuming people know you had a baby, got engaged or somebody died, because you put it on Facebook, is a really sad indictment upon the changes social media has imparted. What happened to real interpersonal relationships?

Ever noticed the Facebook pics of pretty girls in the paper, if they have been involved in a fatal car crash or murdered etc? Social networking enables media to make things more "ooohhh" and "ahhhh" so they love it, and it is leading to even less balanced reporting than we had previously (never thought it possible...). They get the story, then look for social media stuff to boost it up and print it. If an ugly person dies it isn't news anymore?

Its sad your so negative. I use Facebook to keep contact with family & friends around Australia & the world. Works like a charm as its impossible to keep contact with so many people as much as you'd like too. As with Twitter it is what you make it, if you wanna follow idiots good luck to you. Problem is today a large percentage of the population still don't understand technology, i see it on a daily basis doing my job. Hence people being so negative when it comes to a lot of technology etc. Learn to use it properly and you'll enjoy it!!!!