Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:42 pm  

I don't use Twitter or Facebook and I probably never will. I see no reason to tweet my every waking action or be the first to get a comment read out by Fern Cotton after she plays a new track by Jessie J on radio 1 (the speed that these come in must mean that super keen teens are writing them before the track has even started). I'm not a technophobe and I keep up with stuff, but I do like being private.

I limit myself to naming my persona after a former Leeds players facial hair, having a picture of A fictional newsreader as my "avatar" and having arguments with people who have nothing in common other than they all have silly names and somewhere support a rugby league team.

Makes twitter seem sensible

Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:01 pm  

Damo-Leeds wrote:

I’ve privatised most of my YouTube videos

Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:32 am  

i only have a cheap phone, not one of those new fangled machines so i cant twitter even if i wanted to.
i dont do facebook either.
my life is no poorer for not doing them.

[Kosh]

Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:05 am  

McLaren_Field wrote:

The only reason I post on here during the day is because my employer doesn't know the user name

I don't Facebook or Tweet or even update my blog during working hours because they all know who I am on those sites, indeed most of our staff are in the company workgroup, you'd need to be crazy to be sat at your desk tweeting during working hours and expect the MD not to be able trace you.

You don't feel that your signature on here kinda gives the game away?

Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:57 pm  

Kosh wrote:

You don't feel that your signature on here kinda gives the game away?

Oh bugger.

Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:17 pm  

Don't think they aren't reading your tweets either - there is incontrovertible evidence that they are. Take the case of Leigh Van Bryan, who, looking forward to his U.S. holiday with his mate, tweeted "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America." He and his friend Emily Bunting were apprehended on arrival at Los Angeles International Airport before being sent home. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312

Don't think they aren't reading your tweets either - there is incontrovertible evidence that they are. Take the case of Leigh Van Bryan, who, looking forward to his U.S. holiday with his mate, tweeted "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America." He and his friend Emily Bunting were apprehended on arrival at Los Angeles International Airport before being sent home. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312

Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:25 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote: Don't think they aren't reading your tweets either - there is incontrovertible evidence that they are. Take the case of Leigh Van Bryan, who, looking forward to his U.S. holiday with his mate, tweeted He and his friend Emily Bunting were apprehended on arrival at Los Angeles International Airport before being sent home. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312 Spammers can do it, so I have no doubt governments can. Had a tweet from a Jesus spammer as I'd put "Jesus wept" in one tweet. I put "Macbook" in another and had spammers offering me Macbooks. Not quite sure where the porn ones come from though

Ferocious Aardvark wrote: Don't think they aren't reading your tweets either - there is incontrovertible evidence that they are. Take the case of Leigh Van Bryan, who, looking forward to his U.S. holiday with his mate, tweeted He and his friend Emily Bunting were apprehended on arrival at Los Angeles International Airport before being sent home. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312 Spammers can do it, so I have no doubt governments can. Had a tweet from a Jesus spammer as I'd put "Jesus wept" in one tweet. I put "Macbook" in another and had spammers offering me Macbooks. Not quite sure where the porn ones come from though

Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:25 pm  

You do have the option to protect your tweets so only people approved by you can read them. I have never identified my employer, nor do I tweet about work. Although I don't specifically hide my identity either.

It amazes me how many people do bitch about work though.

Re: Twitter and the tweeting twits who use it : Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:28 pm  

The reason I had to join twitter was to contact Three with a dispute about my contract. Yep, a mobile phone provider, via the Internet.