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...admit it. I’m not a Twitter user, because Twitter scares...
Well, technically I am a Twitter user—I signed up about two weeks ago. Some kind soul named “harvarddhall” posts HUDS menu listings for lunch and dinner in concise posts, and I use Twitter’s mobile messaging tool to get those listings sent to my phone via text message. It’s great since I’m usually too lazy to type “huds” into my browser...
...that’s where my Twitter usage ends—there’s something about its combination of voyeurism and narcissism that just gets...
...face of it, Twitter seems like a pretty neat idea. Twitter-ers post 140-character long “tweets” on anything they choose, a la Facebook’s status-update feature. They “follow” each other, so that a user’s followers can automatically see their posts on their main page. A commenting feature allows Twitter-ers to interact with tweets...
...while on Facebook these status updates exist alongside photos, wall posts, and birthday reminders, Twitter doesn’t have much else to distract users. The entire concept of the website is based on these little snippets of information. It’s a creepy form of forced voyeurism, a means by which a Twitter-er makes sure his or her followers are aware of his or her actions at any given time...