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"Hear, hear. Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all a fan of capital punishment or a nanny state and although I'm personally religious, I don't believe in pushing my religion on an entire country - including those people who don't share in my beliefs."
- Sean Quinn
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"I'm not a big fan of the "state shouldn't establish morality" argument. I think there's an obvious line though. Murder is immoral and should be illegal, for obvious reasons. Marijuana smoking shouldn't be illegal and isn't immoral."
- Sean Quinn
that's it- the understanding of publics.
- Kevin Marks
Plus they have video games for entertainment and have lots of time. I don't have time, so Twitter is a form of entertainment that I can get in bite sized chunks.
- Robert Scoble
That's it in one sentence: "Most teens just want to talk with their friends, not write to the world, he says" now maybe the world can start spinning again.
- Hoop
It's really interesting how I've noticed that most of my peers (20-somethings) are too hooked on Facebook to use Twitter or FriendFeed. Again, they don't see the point; Facebook has built-in Twitter that shares with the people they already know and care about.
- Jason Preston
too easy to get in trouble for what you say - on most networks you have to accept the invite of those who want to connect - not so on twitter
- Julie Gallaher
That's the same response I get from nieces and nephews.
- Joseph Ferris
Same thing I hear from a ton of people, regardless of age. For most people, they first need a "point" to use it or else they either don't sign up or don't return.
- Jeff Peters
danah talked about how some teens are using private twitter accounts, as Facebook is now too public, as their parents and teachers are there http://bit.ly/Awmw9 Multiple publics http://bit.ly/publics
- Kevin Marks
My 14-year-old daughter doesn't want to share her life with the world on Twitter...and I'm good with that!
- Kirsti Scott
They care, like us about reputation, but within their 'groups' - not publicly....
- Mrinal Desai
I am here, and I am only thirteen. But I use it to post news, not about my life.
- Zachary TG
I'll have to explain it to her in detail before she gets it, prefers Facebook since ALL of her friends are there
- Miguel Rodriguez
Kids today don't understand nor care about the social dynamics that they will be involved in. Without a solid background now they can never hope to make truly justified choices later on. It scares me because I have to deal with them directly.
- Adam
I'm not much older than your son, but I have a twitter. Noticeably many of my friends detest twitter and compare it to facebook status messages, therefore they are unable to understand what makes Twitter great. Facebook has managed to grab the minds of us teenagers. I must admit I am much more inclined to update my facebook statuses as my friends will comment on it.
- Rahul Krishnakumar
the reason Twitter does well with teens is because they don’t care about networking – the act of creating/extending a network – as much as they do in their existing network itself. http://www.kanjhan.com/2009...
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
PARDON ME! DOES ANYBODY HAVE A BRAIN?
- Zachary TG
Don't worry Zachary - you don't exist in this thread
- Bwana ☠
It seems that every ones use of these tools is a bit different. I use twitter/friendfeed to keep in touch with fellow surfers and fellow web developers I know both here and across the world. Twitter/friendfeed have be come my best tools for this.
- Luke Kilpatrick
My son, while I type into FriendFeed, is playing Halo. The original one.
- Robert Scoble
Yet when I talk about the importance of tying Twitter to gaming, I get ignored
- Bwana ☠
Zach - no clue man, you're the exception the point in this thread :)
- Bwana ☠
Also teenagers are less likely to stick with Twitter long enough to make it useful to them, Facebook has a sort of instant gratification with adding your friends and commenting them etc.
- Chris Lawrence
I am @ricklafave on twitter, but I see the gap being that teens are all about text direct conversations. I see a huge gap in communication between the generations.
- Rick LaFave
Bwana- You just got yourself another subscriber. :)
- Zachary TG
Hey now, I'm 16 and Twitter totally rules over Facebook for me. Twitter's for discussing news; Facebook's for your personal life. Totally agree w/ Zachary TG
- Kirk R. Arner
Of course there are exceptions, I'm 19 and I'm on Friendfeed and Twitter, but we're talking about the majority of teenagers, Kirk and Zachary.
- Chris Lawrence
Have to agree here... my kid (13) and step brother (14) are total facebook kids... they occasionally hop on MySpace as well. Both try to get into Twitter, but really do not see the point.
- Darin aka iGoByDoc
Chris Lawrence: I understand. But like 60% of students at my school use Twitter, only around 40% use Facebook.
- Zachary TG
By the time today's teens are into things they'll look upon Twitter like we now look at IRC. I'm wondering if I even still have an IRC client on my machine....
- Andrew Leyden
Totally agree, Chris, but more teens are into tech than people think. Not all of us are texting to our friends about useless junk 24/7.
- Kirk R. Arner
because it takes too long and is too involved...
- Morgan Haley
Adults are very lazy...140 characters is tough to power through, but doable. The only people lazier than adults? Teenagers. Why bother with Twitter when their lives revolve around Facebook and it meets all their needs?
- Todd Pringle
That's really cool, I know about three of my friends on Twitter and they never use it haha. And if they do they use it as they would Facebook status.
- Chris Lawrence
Even though I text friends, it is just for information, not for useless information.
- Zachary TG
Todd Pringle: I am so not lazy. I wouldn't be spelling my words correctly now would I?
- Zachary TG
Texting has always been really big in Australia, Zachary. It's a habit that's hard to get out of.
- Chris Lawrence
Well yeah, same for me, but we're the exceptions.
- Kirk R. Arner
Zach: speaking in generalities of course. Clearly you are an exception. All up on Friendfeed and whatnot.
- Todd Pringle
I recently started texting. But it was almost created in Canada.
- Zachary TG
I will be happy when everyone has the internet in their pocket and I can just email people instead of spending 25c everytime I want to use 140 characters :(
- Chris Lawrence
Todd Pringle: Thank you. I see that people on FriendFeed are different then the casual social networker. We have manners and use large words and sentences. Thank you
- Zachary TG
goes back to "announce" vs. "discuss", too. Fb has nice "my friends and family" feel that Twitter and FF don't yet have.
- MikeAmundsen
Depends on geographic area. Here it was the Myspace revolution, then slowly became Facebook. The early adopters of Facebook jumped on the Twitter ship and now the middle stage of Facebook adopters are jumping to Twitter. Does Facebook rule supreme among my group? Yes, with myspace a close second, and twitter slowly catching up. PS, i'm 16.
- Sean Quinn
I also don't think most teenagers grasp the difference between Twitter and Facebook. My friends who are content with Facebook don't see any need for Twitter and are actually puzzled by it's intended use. Over and over again I here, "Well Facebook can do that, can't it?"
- Angus Burton
It is only 5c in Canada per text, and unlimited for 5 dollars.
- Zachary TG
Yeah phone plans in Australia are really ridiculous. There are hardly any unlimited SMS plans and the ones that are you are usually paying over $80 a month. But I digress!
- Chris Lawrence
But our data plans are outrageous. $30 for only 500MB.
- Zachary TG
My 16-year-old daughter said the same thing a few months back. But she finally relented and is on Twitter now. A few weeks ago she said "I've never been more informed in my life" since joining.
- Patrick Giblin
Seeing the longtail of Twitter takes a somewhat more mature mindset. That's why some mature teens can 'get' Twitter and why some childish adults don't (and content with Facebook).
- CannonGod
I think the topic teens liking or not liking twitter topic is entertaining at best. Does anyone have any decent statistics on this? Not to mention the term "teen" is pretty loose 13 and 18 are a world apart. I would think a teen using or not using would be more based on their personal interest. My 20 and 30 year old friends that aren't in the tech industry could care less about it.
- Nicholas Fidanza
Admittedly younger generations want to talk with less ppl but more frequently, and adults want to create more connections for friendship or financial gain. Kids don't need to worry about being loved, they have mum & dad at the end of the day :-P Sad single geeks however...
- CannonGod
@Angus that was a comment concern among my friends. Where twitter began to rule was among mobile updating. Although teens can use and do use Facebook Mobile, a two-way conversation can work well among a group of friends via Twitter on mobile phones much rather than Facebook status updates/conversations on Facebook, in my experience.
- Sean Quinn
I'm 16 and me and my close group of friends use twitter-its possible to have "chat room" like conversations about things (where are we gonna go after school, etc.) if we're all hooked up on it-it works great, but admittedly some kids use twitter more than others (like me)
- Oliver Reich
My 15 year old chats on Myspace with her friends. I told here to message one of her regular chat buddies as "You Troll" today and she laughed until she almost peed her pants. :)
- Eric Logan
I just see Twitter as Social SMS. Teens like texting, so really it's just an extension of that. I can therefore see it being used more as a tool rather than an actual network per-say.
- CannonGod
While it’s possible to make Twitter “private,” the culture of Twitter is all about participation in a large public square. From the digerati seeking widespread attention to the politically minded hoping to appear on CNN, many are leveraging Twitter to be part of a broad dialogue. Teens are much more motivated to talk only with their friends and they learned a harsh lesson with social...
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- Johni Fisher
my oldest is 20 and uses Twitter and friendfeed a lot but he's a techie- my youngest is 17, uses mostly facebook and sms with friends - doesn't grok twitter yet he's very social...
- mike "glemak" dunn
from iPhone
got kids 24, 22, & 18. 24 is the only Tweeter. all use Fb. none use FF.
- MikeAmundsen
The article discusses that Teens like building out profiles, and taking to people they know. Twitter's not really for that - it's used more for information sharing IMO.
- Steffan Antonas
It's a crime to suggest that Twitter as a whole is just a single feature of FB and has been that way since the beginning. I never understood when Twittr was demo'd to me how a single feature of a bigger app (in my case, IM status/mood messages) needed to be an app on its own. However, what the early adopter mass wants, the early adopter mass gets (until the mainstream mass shows up and it's zomg culture/class war... I LOVE watching this.)
- Eric Rice
Sean: That's a good point. Strangely, using Twitter as a conversation base didn't occur to me. I actually thought more about using a FriendFeed room for that.
- Angus Burton
I agree with Patrick and I'm well past my teens! FF adds talking with my friends, so it works.
- Rachel Lea Fox
It is simple: kids don't use Twitter because they dont have an iPhone! Most teenagers don't have a decent internet enabled device that allows them to use Twitter nicely. Most parents can't afford (or want) to pay $150+ phone bills for their kids plus buy them an iPhone. I have many young friends and they all love the "Big Brother" spirit of Twitter. I totally dont believe the "I'm a...
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- Arturo Toledo
No dis... I have a 19 y/o daughter...Maybe it because he sees you using it and thinks its an "old people" thing... ?
- Ron Thompson
Geoff: same thing, but then he might be biased cause I hang here all day and it's simply not cool to hang out with your parents when you're 15.
- Robert Scoble
It's a lot easier to have friends in school. On the outside you have to be a bit more proactive.
- Todd Hoff
I only use Twitter to broadcast what I am doing on Posterous, and FriendFeed.
- Matt Ruiz
I'm an older (some say very old) user and friends my age don't do Twitter, FB etc. Their opinion: why bother when I have email? Why would I want to share with the Internet at large? The web is full of idiots.
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
Geoff: I read FriendFeed I just don't post very much. I enjoy reading Twitter and FF they can cetainly be informative and interesting. None of my friends are on Twitter so I was speaking from my experience with them, not all teens.
- Patrick Scoble
Todd: That is also absolutely true with students.
- Patrick Scoble
It is true but a lot of adults don't see the point of it either at the moment and I think it'll change.I'm 19 and I think it's more useful than Facebook etc.
- Craig Malone
kids dont use words or language, they communicat through hyperlinks & txt. as they get older, they'll appreciate the value of words
- echostreamer
Teens spend 6 or 8 hours a day within a few hundred feet of most of the people they know. Why would they need Twitter?
- Rob Sterling
the same reason they spend the next 8 hours glued to facebook and the internet instead of going outside to chill with those friends (no offense :)
- echostreamer
Yeah, but information on Facebook is shared the same way as in school - it's hierarchical and clique-based. Kids are more like base primates than adults. Twitter is too open, when they want to control the dissemination of information among those people they know in school.
- Rob Sterling
There are a lot of 13-15 year-olds on Twitter, just look around :) The best way to find them is to find a celebrity who might garner a teen following ... That said, Twitter is (for now) nowhere near as popular with teens as MySpace and Facebook, for sure.
- dcap
Also, most kids can't afford smartphones, and using Twitter exclusively by text message is mostly a one-way affair. It's pretty lame. I bet your 15 y.o. son loves to text and spends hours on Facebook.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
I think teens may be more privacy savvy than the media paints them. They know that a nasty Tweet about a school official can get them expelled; but a private txt is safe.
- Robert Hafer
How many teens are marketing gurus and life coaches? Kids aren't selling anything and see no need to sell themselves. THAT'S why they don't care about Twitter.
- Kimber Scott
Robert: it is worse than that. One message can get them shunned.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Just like my older friends, they have no desire to connect with the Twitter-verse at large. But for different reasons.
- Robert Hafer
I've been looking for the point for a long time :O) - To me it has become a place where I can "vocalize" things I've always just said to myself before. I just find it funny anyone actually "listens"
- Bill Rawlinson
I think its good that teens don't like twitter. We can get on here without them!
- Su Butcher
As a teenager I didn't see the point of reading a newspaper either, but now I work in one!
- | Balu |
I don't have any friends, so I'm forced to write for the world.
- Big K
Interns in my office say they know college friends starting to use Twitter. Of course, none of the interns actually do. Twitter seems to be good for celebrities and professional networking.
- Hutch Carpenter
What's the big deal ? Most teens don't follow current events like politics or the economy either, it's not what being a kid is about.
- Doug Randall in SL
So that means he will like Google Wave? = the next Teen Twitter
- Hans Kainz
We can't say that Google Wave is the next Twitter, it's more instant messaging than anything (and I'd say FriendFeed relates more to it than Twitter does).
- Hugh Isaacs II
I do deeply hope that Google Wave takes off. I really hate signing into my msn account just to keep in touch with friends who can't get on the GTalk bandwagon or just don't see the point.
- Chris Chua
I think if you could start a conversation like this one on twitter just like on ff or fb with commenting tweets or just parsing them when you reply, it would be a lot more interesting
- Kaysha
Interesting that the 15 year old kid who got the job at Morgan Stanley did so because his mum knew a chap who she met when dog walking - so not what he knew but who his mum knew, and because of that he had an audience for his opinion.
- Simon Rogers
Wrote a post about this a long time ago. Interaction will scale down as the possibilities to interact scale up. The next gen doesn't care about talking to the whole world. There is little value in it
- Alexander van Elsas
from iPhone
Just blogged on this subject. I don't believe this is a generational issue. It's about privacy and signal:noise ratio. When those degrade, communities migrate to new social networking services, regardless of group members' average age. http://lehawes.wordpress.com/2009...
- Larry Hawes
Makes sense to me. Teenagers (and many adults) use social networks to chitchat. Others, like myself, use them as filters. I don't care about how cute your cat was this morning, but I want to know if someone I respect found something particularly interesting on engadget today because I don't have time to read it all day.
- Ben Reierson
I might disagree with my boss here, is that dangerous? I think it's much less an issue of safety and much more an issue of convenience. Daniel's on to something, though.
- Sean Quinn
People fear anything when it's too easy. They instantly panic thinking if it's easy for them, then it's easy for other people to get to them. Add in kids and I'm sure your average bumbling parent will have instilled ph34r into them before trouble ever gets a foot in the door. When your child doesn't come home at the end of the day, THEN start worrying. Don't stop your child from developing, even if it's seemingly seamy.
- CannonGod
Besides, Twitter has privacy options. Maybe they need to be enabled by default, but I don't mind either way.
- CannonGod
Maybe one of the reason kids aren't on Twitter is because their parents are. Think about it what teenager wants to post messages on a system that anybody can see, I know I wouldn't. On Facebook at least you know who can see what your posting. Yes I know there a privacy option, but its not well known.
- Kim Landwehr
Kim: From a teen's POV, many more parents are on Facebook (and subsequently shown the more private profile) then are Twitter. From my experience.
- Sean Quinn
TechCrunch better be careful about writing negative articles about Twitter or they may get taken off the SUL :)
- Stephen Pickering
"Of course one play can't save a season. Trust me, I'm a Mets fan. Our original slogan was "To err is human, To forgive is a Mets fan." But it's still unbelievable."
- Sean Quinn
Another demographic switch. If not Facebook or MySpace, where are younger users moving now? What's next, say the fickle?
- Rob McNair-Huff
I've seen nothing but youth surging to Facebook. Those who get it stay with it, and those who don't are like the Twitter users who come, join, and never update. Just from my knowledge of y'know...being a youth.
- Sean Quinn
Numbers and statistics, we can make them say almost anything we want... Here is my view: We can't really say that users in the 18-24 age range are going somewhere else by looking at these numbers alone. There are more users in each age range. We can say for sure that the progression is less aggressive in some age range, but is it that problematic? One thing we have to consider here is...
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- alltoute
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
I think one of @MOOBER 's points above is insightful. The data seems to show a clear story about the student demographic - The age demographic 18-24 shows absolute growth. However, his point about the "unknown gender" growth of 291% doesn't show WHO isn't sharing that data. I would think it more likely that the 55+ growth (generally less tech savvy - no offense) would account for the...
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- Steffan Antonas
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
I've never seen it. I don't own a T.V. it is on my rental list. most of the T.V. I see these days are on the stairmaster at the gym.
- Noah David Simon
Planned on watching the rest of them today, I've only made it through Episode 1 on the DVD. Will do tomorrow.
- Sean Quinn
sounds fun. renting DVD sets gets expensive. need to get netflix
- Noah David Simon
Try you local library, that's where I got my discs from.
- Kittyburgers
As a Briton one thing confuses me about America. A lot of times you hear things stated such as "the troops are defending America" Or "they gave their life to defend America" but if a soldier in a foreign country dies, how are they "defending America"? I mean, America has not been invaded in the last hundred years, so it has not had to be "defended". Btw, In Britain we say "they died SERVING their country".
- Mark
Mark, that's cause the people who say that are idiots.
- Dave Winer
@Mark: Because the people who say that usually classify things like 9/11 or Pancho Villa's trek to the US as full-scale invasions, comparable to the Germans in France in WW2. I've always used SERVING, as well.
- Sean Quinn
Mark, I think it's a Cold War throwback. During Vietnam, "keeping us free" tied into the domino theory. But hawks never gave it up; saying you're for freedom is so nice and all-purpose. You'll regularly hear Palin and Fox news types claiming that fighting in Iraq protects everything from our right to free speech to our right to vote.
- Amyloo
That would be a heck of an event if some terrorists in Iraq managed to overthrow the US government and repeal the Constitution of the USA. Hehe.
- Mark
Anne - the front cover of every Moleskine says "In case of loss, please return to:" followed by 3 blank lines. Then it says "As a Reward: $_______". I always write my name and phone number.
- Sarah Miller
from iPhone
Poll: 1) Do you regularly wear a belt with jeans? 2) Do you regularly tuck in your shirt in jeans? 3) Do you regularly wear a belt with jeans when you don't tuck in your shirt?
Also no to all three. I usually only wear a belt when I'm dressing up. Untucked with no belt is normal
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
1) Yes 2) T-shirt: No, Polo shirt: Yes 3) yes
- Alex Scoble
Anika and Michelle - so just curious why you wear belts, especially when your untucked shirt will cover it. Is it purely functional?
- Fa La La La Lindsay
(1) not unless absolutely necessary (2) not unless absolutely necessary (3) No.
- LogEx
1 No 2 No, and 3 Only when my pants won't stay up.
- Heather Solos
I got a booty. I need my pants to stay up over that booty. Also, I mostly either wear tunics or long tanks or a short shirt. They don't lend themselves to be tucked in. And keep in mind you're talking jeans. Tucked in shirts with jeans is just not attractive to me. With my slacks, I often wear button-down blouses that get tucked in if I'm not wearing a tunic or long tank.
- Admiral Anika
1) always wear belt, 2) Never tuck in shirt except at formal occasions.
- veo
1. Yes 2. Usually 3. Usually. Gotta be prepared for pants snatchers.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
1) Always. 2) No. 3) Obvious from the first one ;)
- Praveen Vasudev
Yes, sometimes, yes. I feel a little underdressed when I don't tuck in my shirt at work, but a tucked in shirt feels dweebish. Usually I don't.
- Bryan Clark
@Anika - funny... I have a booty too, and that's what keeps my jeans up without the belt!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
1) Yes 2) No 3) Yes. And because it's functional, yes. I have hips and thighs, but a small waist, so unless I get jeans altered (which I'm too cheap/lazy to do), they're always way too big in the waist to be remotely modest if I don't wear a belt.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Assuming I'm wearing nice button-down shirts (which is what I wear to work every day) then I wear them tucked in with a belt. If I'm wearing a shirt that shouldn't be tucked in (Cuban looking or something) then I don't wear a belt. I wouldn't wear my nice shirts with crummy jeans and I wouldn't wear a belt with crappy jeans. I think the belt with jeans thing MIGHT depend on how nice the...
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- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
Oh, and I dare anyone to think I look weenie when my shirts are tucked in.
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
I usualy wear a belt. Somewhere to put my BB then.I usually tuck my shirt in. Then again I seldom wear jeans, I'm in shorts most all the time.
- Ian May
1)I used to then stopped. Then I started again when I got serious sag-ass (and fear of crack showing) with all my jeans. 2) Uh, no. 3) Yes.
- Lis Miller
I never tuck in a shirt with jeans, but then I can't wear them to work so they are strictly casual.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I never wear a belt, don't remember the last time that I tucked
- BEX
No to all three. If I do for whatever reason wear a belt, then 1 and 3 apply. If it's tucked in, I'm at some semiformal event (e.g. golf) but I'd not wear jeans golfing.
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
1)Yes, always because waist never fits. 2)no 3)yes
- Michelle
I mean I'm tired of Facebook and Twitter. It's all anybody talks about, and it bores me.
- Cristo
its because everyones using it, its whats big on the web right now. Its quite easy to block it all out though. Unsubscribe from tech people like me, stay out of tech groups, stay clear of twitter
- Zee.
@Zee: I find it rather surprising that FB is only just officially announcing this, I've been seeing the SMS subscription link for several weeks now
- LANjackal
@sean what if Facebook had all the same people, same ways to keep in touch etc...would u still use both? (genuine question, not rhetorical)
- Zee.
under peoples profiles LAN? I haven't there till today
- Zee.
@Zee: Yep. I belong to one of FB's initial rollout networks, which I've noticed gets me new features ahead of time *sometimes*. It's happened once or twice before. *shrugs* I saw it, clicked it, realized there was no one I needed to know that much about all the time, and ignored it, lol :P
- LANjackal
@Sean: +1, I use both too. I absolutely hate Twitter but it's the current public microblogging leader, so ...
- LANjackal
"new feature"? Beg pardon? SMS from Facebook has been available for several years now. It's very unlike twitter in that it still requires a reciprocal relationship, and not merely following.
- Mistletoe Glen
@Zee: RE the question you asked Sean, I'd still use both. My FB is reserved for people I know IRL. Twitter is open to anyone. Therefore both serve very different purposes and audiences for me
- LANjackal
I heard SMS was dead. ...oh wait, I might have that confused with something else.
- Edward Zwart
With the G1 out now, why doesn't Facebook add T-Mobile to their Mobile carriers? Doesn't make any sense why Facebook (the worlds largest social network) continues to NOT support Tmobile.
- Brian
I'll still use both because of the asynchronus relationships on twitter. I've also developed a different community on twitter than I have on facebook.
- Aaron Hood
from BuddyFeed
anyone know when vanity URLs are out ? techcrunch posted last weekend they reckon it's this week.. times running out :D
- Stuart Evans
@Glen Years?? http://blog.facebook.com/blog... and regarding reciprocity...for sure, but the same way twitter works - it depends if the person decides to open parts of their profile up completely or not
- Zee.
@LAN - i still reckon with lists its going to be very possible to have all the communities you want to on Facebook
- Zee.
I've been receiving SMS updates from my Facebook friends since December 2007. Their blog post doesn't mention that it's a new feature; they're just drawing attention to it. They used to call it "Facebook Mobile"; the only thing new (that I can see) is that they're using the term "SMS" instead of "Text Message" and it's now right on the front of the profile instead of being buried under...
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- Mistletoe Glen
With that feature I can't get sms updates. I have a phone company that isn't on there. It's not well known so it's not on there. Plus I update Twiiter more than I facebook anyways. I always tell people to follow me on Twitter because I update it more. If and when Facebook becomes overpopulated (which is slowly starting to happen) I will just use anothersocial network like FriendFeed or Plurk. I will not go back to using Facebook.
- Patrick
from twhirl
Personally, I think the multimedia and streaming functionality we have here on FriendFeed is the best I've seen thus far - like Patrick, I don't think I would go back to using Facebook, at least not in this way...
- Gunther Sonnenfeld
but Glen you could never respond to other peoples updates via SMS because the commenting under updates never existed before. And, at least in the UK, i've never had the mass of SMS noticiation options that we have available now.
- Zee.
You're not popular if you don't use facebook. Oh really? Like I care about that. Facebook is nice but it lacks a lot of stuff Twitter doesn't in my opinion. For now on when people ask me if I'm "on facebook" I'll say yes, but please follow me on Twitter instead.
- Patrick
from twhirl
In my case, my Facebook circle is significantly different from my Twitter circle, so I would still have occasion to use both. In my case, my Twitter and FriendFeed accounts are more tightly integrated than my Facebook and FriendFeed accounts, so that gives Twitter an edge there since I use FriendFeed more than I use the other two services.
- John E. Bredehoft
I'm not the biggest fan of Twitter, I find it extremely hard to have a conversation with someone. I have indeed seen that Facebook is transforming into a Twitter-like-state. But that doesn't mean One is copying the others. Facebook has had the ability to receive updates via SMS for a while. That doesn't mean one's turning into the other.
- Matt Ruiz
Matt I find it easier to have a conversation on FriendFeed.
- Patrick
from twhirl
@Matt, I agree totally, just had a bit of a rant on another post "like it or not, twitter is becoming infrastructure" mentioning about the conversation aspect of twitter and how its only made easy by the use of clients! i've pretty much given up on twitter, friendfeed just provides a far better experience
- Stuart Evans
@Patrick, exactly. FriendFeed may be a feed aggregator but it feels more like an easier way of knowing what your friends are doing without stalking them.
- Matt Ruiz
MatthewR Plus FriendFeed doesn't limit your text to only 140 words like Twitter does, but neither does Facebook.
- Patrick
from twhirl
@zee suprised you haven't got a vanity url already :P
- Stuart Evans
Zee, normally I hide all posts that have Twitter or Facebook in them, but sometimes I make an exception. There's really nothing technical about either, so if I spend time in Tech groups, I can probably avoid them both pretty easily.
- Cristo
"Not at all a Paultard, but this just makes sense. Glad to see a man I helped get elected cosponsoring (Grayson) and a man I will try to get deseated (Mica) cosponsoring as well."
- Sean Quinn
defensive POY, too. (I want him to get it, not confirmed)
- Mona Nomura
don't think he cares so much about these awards right now. his career is still very young. pretty sure he cares more about winning the championship. at least i would hope so. team > individual. :)
- John Wang
he's not defensive POY, that honor belongs to my man, mr. dwight howard
- Sean Quinn
@John: i agree... it's championship or bust this season for LeBron...or he goes to the Knicks in 2010. i'm a Knicks fan. I can dream.
- .LAG liked that
Yup i have another job, but i still want/need that severance check.
- Chrimmus Tad
FINALLY got my severance check. HR woman was on conference call till 3PM. So what started out as a "go out to eat lunch with the boss and go home day" turned into a stay at work doing nothing productive day.
- Chrimmus Tad
Tad I have actually thought about U often while I was away in twitter land. So glad to hear U have a new job. Is it in the same field? Have U started yet?
- R. Ferguson
Wow, 40% ??? Americans really have turned on the republican party haven't they LOL
- Scott Bannon
Assuming she and John McCain don't win this week: I'd like to see her make a run in 2012, for sure. That said, I'm thankful that she would have little chance of even winning the 2012 Republican primary.
- j1m
Is it horrifying or a demonstration of the lack of potential talent people see in the current Republican party?
- Johnny Worthington
Right John - the Republicans have a lot of great potential candidates, but most of them won't satisfy the lunatic fringe that Palin speaks to
- Chrimmus Tad
Why does this surprise you? Seriously. haha
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
I'd like to see her run. She'd be easy to beat.
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
I'd LOVE to see her run. I've been drooling over that option for the past 3 weeks. But we don't matter. We'll have to see if she can play nice with The Village.
- Admiral Anika
Yes, because democrats have such a talent poll this time around. A no-name, one-term senator and the wife of a former President. Sometimes, you need to stick your head out of the internet group-think for a minute.
- Spencer
Now wait...if Palin does run in 2012, since she doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being taken seriously and winning, that would put the race between the Democrats and a 3rd party candidate. Yeah, I'd like to see her run too, just to give Americans more real choices.
- April Russo (app103)
@April: Remember, Bush won twice against better candidates. Palin can win if she's "marketed" right.
- Rui Pereira
@Rui & @april - or... she runs as an independent, sort of a cultural Ross Perot. Or... she teams up with Newt and they run a full R ticket from the start, freezing out anything but smarter, more metro Republicans thru the primaries and setting up an epic clash with a - hopefully still - popular incumbent in the Fall.
- Thom Kennon
Maybe just for the fun of it? I hope...
- Holger Eilhard
Names like Gregg and Jindal don't have the recognition factor yet.
- Robert Hafer
and this survey was done by whom? when? against what group(s)? i am rarely moved by "a recent poll shows.." stories. IMO, they are often attempts at managing news cycles and supporting self interest. i don't often see a poll designed to -remove-biases. i see too many designed to -support- biases. anyone got the details on this one?
- MikeAmundsen
The only bottom line that's for sure is what Ian May said.
- Micah Wittman
I think Roberto is right! Bring back Tina!
- petar vucetin
I'd like to see her on dancing with the stars! lmao
- MicahBear78
The numbers and huge sway of conservative voters in America is quite astonishing. As a liberal, at the very least if conservatives are going to get into power again, please put someone in who can speak and write well and is intelligent. The Bush's weren't that and Palin certainly isn't.
- EcoAussie
from twhirl
EcoAussie, Unfortunatly, Condi Rice wouldn't run.
- Robert Hafer
She's 3, so no. :) As for when... no idea. I just can't see that far into the future.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Well, it is very likely that the children of FriendFeed users do not actually know about FriendFeed. In addition, they may not sign up in the first place without some encouragement from their parents.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
No. If my kids can sign themselves up, then they can have at it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Isn't that like "signing" them up for ballroom dancing or accordion lessons?
- Brian Sullivan
seems like more of an adult place. would probably bore a kid to death
- BEX
i think the youngest person i know of on here is 15 years old... i think young geeks should be allowed.
- Trish Haley
Of course young geeks should be allowed (but only if they like accordion music and ballroom dancing).
- Brian Sullivan
heh. as for my children at their ages right now? no. leather donut lurks. ;)
- Trish Haley
I don't even like Weird Al Yankovic's accordion songs, and I LOVE W.A.Y. If I had kids, the world would implode, and there would be no FriendFeed, so the question is moot.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Are there any parent/child pairs on FF right now?
- Rochelle
Well, Patrick Scoble has an account. (Alex's nephew)
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Does Patrick even use FF? Georgia Worthington has an account, too, but she doesn't use it.
- Rochelle
Yeah, I don't think he is active here. He did try it for a couple of days.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I have mine and use it actively at 16. Age \= maturity.
- Sean Quinn
I don't get how you figure kids of users don't know about the site. My kid is almost 6 and is aware of it, though she still associates everyone she meets as "from Twitter".
- Admiral Anika
Well, I don't imagine that parents tell their children about the web browsing activities of the parents. Pre-pubescent children, regardless of how intelligent, generally don't analyze TechCrunch posts.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Just got done playing the entire album of Ten from Pearl Jam, on Rock Band Drums. I don't care how big of a geek you think I am...it's so much fun!!!
- David Cook
Live: Jeopardy!, ESPN (Magic-Celtics), ESPN2 (SJSU vs. St. Mary's) and DVRed: Countdown, Rachel Maddow, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
- Sean Quinn
"I love the NBA and I love my comics but if I see Nate Robinson in the New Krypton miniseries running now, I'm shitting bricks. Oil and water."
- Sean Quinn
Blagojevich Indictment: What Did Obama Know, and When Did He Know It?
- Csturm
he was complaining on the phone that he was rejected... so he knew. read between the media spin on CNN. this guy was pissed off that Obama wasn't playing along... which means Obama didn't go to the FBI
- Noah David Simon
this dude ain't keeping quiet. he will need to sell Obama out. the media is poo poo'n it because they know this story is deadly
- Noah David Simon
From what I read [in the indictment] he didn't want to put in who Obama wished for the seat, most likely Valerie Jarett, because she wouldn't pay him any favors.
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
this guy has quite a history. did anyone read the wiki? went to Serbia with Jesse Jackson during Balkan war. and had some involvement with some government position for some freaky nation of Islam dude that was a serious Anti-Semite. wow. this guy is the biggest dumb ass. how could he not think the FBI was microscoping his ass? he might as well be on friendfeed talking about selling...
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- Noah David Simon
I agree Igor... but the GOP will continue to hunt and my guess is this guy feels very betrayed. He is an obvious aMANdaCHAPel Chicago white radical leftist.... what do you make of this guy? He is stabbed in the back keep in mind and Obama runs off with the "Clinton Neo Cons". my bet is that this is worse then Whitewater. Obama has a lot of people who got him where he is now that feel like he has betrayed his base. I'm guessing that he will sing, but not alone. We have a choir.
- Noah David Simon
my sister is in Chicago. she was screaming about how much she loved Obama. my mother just got off the phone with her. she has no idea what is going on. She has no idea who the Governor is. She is in the Joffrey Ballet. those art institutes brainwash the kids.
- Noah David Simon
I didn't ask you to. trust me Igor... every bimbo in America is hoping to jump Obama Snake. my sister is just one of many. dumb beee-ah
- Noah David Simon
Ok, I marry your B sister. Who many camels and goats do you give me? LOL
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Now I know why you friended me. You trying to marry off your sister! LMAO Get the camels and the stallions ready. I will have my man servant Scoble check their bad breath! ;-)
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק