Posted by Nadezda on November 5, 2009, at 13:09:03
In reply to Re: PUT ON THIS FORUM SO IT GET,S READ » manic 666, posted by delna on November 5, 2009, at 10:38:01
I 've used twitter a fair amount from time to time and I find it anything but a social site.
I use it to keep up with important breaking news from abroad, for example, the protest of the Iranian election-- and other events as they arise-- for which it is the best source I've found online.
I've also used it to search for guided meditation and meditation sites-- and it was again quite helpful. Not as helpful as it could be, if people like Bob and others use it as a site for discovering places like Babble.
But then that's up to the users-- do they want it to be serious, or to be superificial? what do they post? what can they find? Twitter has so many possibilities to be a great source of information from other people-- and imo it already is-- Even if you get more hits from lady gaga-- than mental illness--- that can change. Nor does it define the site. It's useful to many different people in many different ways. Maybe fewer people are interested in mental illness, but that doesn't mean it isn't highly useful to people who are.
I also dont use facebook as a "purely" social site-- as if intimate connectons to other people-- and even less intimate connections to people in your past or in your circle of interests is somehow not serious.-- (I don't know why you and others think of relationships between people as somehow trivial.) I use it to keep touch with people who matter to me.
I don't get the negativity about twitter and facebook. Maybe you use them purely socially-- but that is not true of everyone-- nor is it necessarily how they can be used.
Nadezda
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