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Author Topic: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
MasterZap  4495 posts
Registered: Aug '02
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Date Posted: 7/3 1:53am Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
Boter posted:
New people will come on, tweet about their poop, and then either slow down how much they tweet or just forget about it. Meanwhile, people who use it well are the ones that are giving us minute-by-minute updates on the stuff going on in Iran.


Although it's really the misconception that twitter is *only* people writing completely inane updates as "Walking the dog". "Sitting down". Etc. Really.

Some people may do just that, but I use it much more as a "communications platform", where people interested in my whereabouts and thoughts can find them in a *brief* form.

I use twitter more to express thoughts, post hints, be witty, give info, say hi, than "what I am doing"; I actually think the twitter web UI tricks people into posting the "I am walking the dog" because the question before the field is actually written as "What are you doing?". Whereas e.g. facebook has now updated to "Whats on your mind" which is really a more appropriate "question".

What is most interesting, though, is the twitter success from a psychological standpoint. WHY is an intentionally limitited service so fantastically useful!?

I think twitter somehow hit (by chance) a sweetspot with the 140 character thing, because:

* you never get overwhelmed with huge posts. Hence you can absorb the stream of Teh Many

* the limit stops you from expressing yourself super-eloquently, you have to be brief and to the point, elegance be damned. This makes it *easier* to just write something, because how many times have you thought "I really should make a blog post about this, but I don't have the energy to sit down and write something, edit it, fix the typos, add pictures... yawn, I go play nintendo". So it actually induces more output.


This magical sweetspot hit by this little simple 140-character annyone-can-follow tool has proven to be fantastic, somehow, in a completely inexplicable way. Someone, some day, will write a book of the psychology (including EEG charts) showing why this is so seductively appealing to the human psyche.



...and as always with these special little "in the zone" things, it can look totally incomprehensible to people on the outside, I understand that. They snicker and LOL at it and think the twitterers are crazy. To which the twitterers just snicker back at the poor uninitiated in their cute obliviousness.

So, I just suggest "bathe in the twitter stream". Start by following http://twitter.com/MasterZap happy

/Z

 

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doggans  7765 posts
Registered: Aug '02
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Date Posted: 7/3 2:52am Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
I like Twitter because of its simplicity. Basically, I'm starting to prefer Twitter to Facebook for the exact same reasons that back in 2005 I preferred Facebook to MySpace.

Anyway. Today I rode the Indiana Jones ride five times. An excellent birthday, if I do say so myself.

 

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Lord_Charisma  2465 posts
Registered: Feb '01
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Date Posted: 7/3 3:59am Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
Posting this from a Sony Ericsson k800i. It's no iPhone / Blackberry, but I can use Opera Mini, play Peggle and carry around my reel.

 

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Vidina  2988 posts
Registered: Jan '06
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Date Posted: 7/3 5:38am Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
Lord_Charisma posted:
Posting this from a Sony Ericsson k800i. It's no iPhone / Blackberry, but I can use Opera Mini, play Peggle and carry around my reel.


I had one of those. Dropped it in a puddle, and it was still working. The camera lens, however, got broken, and every time I shot pictures with the flash enabled, it all blew out to white no matter what I did.

 

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Laszlo  1546 posts
Registered: Nov '06
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Date Posted: 7/3 5:42am Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
VaporTrail posted:
It's worse than the "i[Object]" trend.
Krintar posted:
Of course, the iRack was great.
I'm totaly down for producing a film called iRaq. Anyone?

 

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Krintar  1042 posts
Registered: Dec '04
Date Posted: 7/3 6:36am Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0 - Date Edited: 7/3 6:50am (1 edits total) Edited By: Krintar
Laszlo posted:
I'm totally down for producing a film called iRaq. Anyone?

The challenge is to make it not seem like a ripoff from MADtv.

 
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Boter  1868 posts
Registered: Jul '02
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Date Posted: 7/3 7:15am Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
Actually, iRan wouldn't be a bad title for a documentary on the prevalence of technology in news reporting.

 

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PixelMagic  6650 posts
Registered: Oct '01
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Date Posted: 7/3 2:00pm Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0 - Date Edited: 7/3 2:00pm (1 edits total) Edited By: PixelMagic
Well, just to be on the safe side...

http://twitter.com/danielbroadway

 

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Robi-Wan  1428 posts
Registered: Oct '06
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Date Posted: 7/3 2:18pm Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0 - Date Edited: 7/3 2:23pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Robi-Wan
Ha. I literally JUST made myself a Twitter myself. Timing timing.

http://twitter.com/RobinHeiberg

 

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VaporTrail  9951 posts
Registered: May '02
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Date Posted: 7/3 3:21pm Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
I was browsing my Netflix account earlier, stumbled across something interesting.
I've rated 929 movies. I only rate movies I've seen, so it just hit me that I've seen 929 movies. 930 actually, cuz I just watched Erin Brockovich with mom.
Well, some of those are TV shows, although I'm pretty sure I haven't rated everything I've ever seen and I don't tend to rate things I've only seen part of.

Someone's gonna come on here with a number much more impressive than mine, but I'm still pretty proud of it.

And for some reason, I don't feel a need to tell Twitter about this.

 

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bobaandy123  879 posts
Registered: Jan '05
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Date Posted: 7/3 3:39pm Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0 - Date Edited: 7/3 3:40pm (1 edits total) Edited By: bobaandy123
I've got you beat. 20,375 here.










Of course, that's what my YouTube channel says. But it's the same thing though, right?

 

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WeirdHat  900 posts
Registered: Jul '03
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Date Posted: 7/3 3:55pm Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
My list is at 650. That's just feature films, though.

(I've seen 167 of the IMDb top 250)

 

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Vidina  2988 posts
Registered: Jan '06
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Date Posted: 7/3 4:18pm Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
Huh, I've never even thought about how much films I've seen. I know it's hundreds, but I never actually sat down to count them all. I've got around 200 DVD's, and I know that's not even half of what I've seen.

In any case, Watchmen was great. Got back from a rerun of it right now. Having never read the comic(I know, I know), I quite enjoyed it.

 

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AdamBertocci  19879 posts
Title: Manager: Fan Films
 Registered: Feb '02
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Date Posted: 7/3 4:55pm Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
I used to know more or less how many movies I might have seen. But then IMDB locked my old account for no good reason whatsoever. sad


I've sen 128 of the current IMDB Top 250. Wow, some of those don't deserve to be there.


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bobaandy123  879 posts
Registered: Jan '05
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Date Posted: 7/3 11:48pm Subject: In Search of the "of the": Social Thread v8.0
I had an interesting idea for a movie. Let me know if it sounds like I totally stole it from somewhere.


The year is 2137. After 130 years, we finally have the technology to bring cryogenically frozen people back to life. They are slowly experimenting with the technology, and they revive a man who was seriously injured in a car crash.

As the man slowly comes to grips with what has happened, and the doctors slowly heal his wounds, he starts to realize what is around him. He begins to realize what time it is. And he starts to drive himself insane about it.

He see's these things, miraculous medical treatments, holograms, hovering vehicles. He knows they are there, and they are absolutely intertwined into every day life, the same as technology is today. But he didn't come to terms to it gradually, he didn't grow up with this stuff. He simply can not comprehend. He literally went to sleep one night and woke up in the next century.

As he does drive himself slowly crazy, it gets to a point where he is dying. There is no humane way to treat him. They leave him be.

But he learns of an area the government sanctioned off a long time ago. A very large area (the size of a state) that no one has been allowed to set foot in in decades. It's heavily defended and NO ONE goes in or out. Inside, the man believes, has to be a lesser developed society. No one's been there for a very long time, so it's a logical assumption. His only key to survival is to go here. To get away from the technology. To ajust.

The rest of the movie would be him trying to get into this area, and in the meantime uncovering a huge government conspiracy (aliens or something, still working on it.)

I also don't know if it should be a happy or sad ending. The sad ending would be it IS aliens and the SUPER advanced technology just makes his brain explode. The happy one would be he turns into a muffin or something, I don't know.

 

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