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[pgil]

Because Facebook apparently doesn't provide the narcissistic fix that some people crave.

...Ben Pettengill is posting a douchey comment on Tigsource.

[Alec S.]

I think Facebook is useful to keep in touch with friends.  Twitter is useful to keep in touch with fans/an audience.  For example I could see how it would be useful for an indie game designer to use it to let people know about progress updates on their game.

[jimmykane]

Isn't Facebook currently in the process of trying to boil itself down into an intelligent Twitter clone anyway? 

All of a sudden, the focus is placed squarely on your wall, your status updates are posted there, the news feed is almost like a twitter timeline that somehow discerns which people's status updates you care reading about, it highlights conversations/sharing between your friends, etc...

Blogs are dead, short bursts of thought are the futu

[William Laub]

short bursts of thought are the futu

you're wrong

[JoeHonkie]

short bursts of thought are the futu

you're wrong

please explain why in < 140 chars

[salade]

dammit

short bursts of thought are the futu

you're wrong

please explain why in < 140 chars

hahah, i see what's going on here!

[Alec S.]

...

hahah, i see what's going on here!

@JoeHonkie:  I don't, what's going on?

[Alevice]

You have to be brie

[agj]

[Inanimate]

I haven't signed up for Facebook, or Myspace, or this twitter thing. I'm holding out!

[GregWS]

I'm a proud avoider of Facebook/social networking sites.  The Facebook craze hit while I was in high school, and saying "I'm not getting it" then was usually greeted with "why not?"

Now, whenever I tell people that I don't have it they say "wow, you're really smart, good for you."  :D

I don't really understand twitter, but I do read Jon Mak's twitter because I desperately want to know as much about the game he's working on as possible, and that's the only thing he posts about on his account.  From what I can gather it's a platformer with music heavily integrated (he's never too direct about the game, but gives lots of small details about its development).

[Marmaduke Slam]

I signed up for a facebook account so it was easier for people to show me photos. I use it a little bit but trying to do things other than post my status I find overly difficult. I end up having to ask friends and the like and sound like I have no idea how to use a computer. I don't know if it's the fact that I am completely out-of-touch with the way things like that work or if it's badly designed.

Twitter only really seems handy for, as has been said, more professional sites. The two useful places I've seen twitter were on the Earth Hour website and on Eegra during Bison week.

The media also seem to cover twitter a lot, and twitter jokes fly thick and fast with stand-up comedians. Too bad there are only so many twitter jokes you can do before you're just repeating what someone else said.

[DjangoDurango]

I follow Phonogram's Twitter because their blog was down for a while and the writer of the comic actually stopped by my LJ to tell me they had one. They use it in the professional way, to post updates and such. They often post press they've gotten, like interviews and such, on there instead of on their blog. I subscribed for a while, but I didn't understand what the point of having all their tweets to not only the general public but in response to other people was. I unsubscribed and just follow the feed, which only has stuff they post on it.

[Paul Eres]

I'm a proud avoider of Facebook/social networking sites.  The Facebook craze hit while I was in high school, and saying "I'm not getting it" then was usually greeted with "why not?"

Haha, when I was in high school the internet was barely hitting. I think the library only got internet-capable computers in my senior year.

[William Broom]

I caved in to Myspace a few weeks ago actually. Mainly because my friends are all on it. As I expected, it's pretty fun to use but ultimately wastes a lot of time on pointless stuff. So I'm trying to keep it at arm's length.