I'm on facebook, best I can say about it is; it's nice to see all my highschool classmates.

Even The complete strangers Ive met here on Tribe are like Graduate School in intellect, wisdom, talent, art, variety, comedy and outside the box thought compared to the secondary school comments on FB.

Twitter I am interested in. From an Extreme Honesty POV, I believe journaling to a be very healthy component in honest living. Blogs are a good forum for this, but I don't use the blog here as much as would be healthy. If Twitter is what I believe it to be, it seems like a running stream-of-consiousness of 'mini-blogs'. If this gets people in the habit of journaling, then I am all for it!

I do tweet and face book.

Twitter is microblogging for the most part.Easily abused by those who got to announce every latte they purchase, every bar they enter, every single fucking thing they do. I will sometimes drunk twitter, that can be interesting the next day, oy veh.
But it can be fun, and its easy to set the level of interaction you want with other people in your twitter network.



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I am thoroughly hooked on facebook. And contrary to Dr. P. Dawgus's experiences, I have been having some outstanding converstions in several of the groups therein.

Twitter's neat, but I mostly use it when I'm too lazy to fully develop something for my blog. I post the heart of the idea then I have it out of my head without having the idea go wholly to waste.

I have a Facebook profile.
I also have a Twitter profile.
To avoid information mis-crosses, my social networks of friends on both sites are relatively similar. As a result, I have my Twitter "status" auto-update to my Facebook "status." (Kills two birds with one stone, too.)
Twitter has many applications that help in filtering the status messages of those you follow: Tweetdeck, for example. Yes, it is easy to get overwhelmed with screens and screens. The various Twitter tools out there are available to manage this.
Hey, I see that now Tribe has a tool where an initial discussion post in a tribe can be "shared" and interfaced with Twitter. As Twitter only allows 140 characters to each post, I'm not sure how this will work but I'm curious to see how.

I haven't used Twitter yet although FB has pretty much replaced tribe for me in keeping in touch with people I know. Seldom lof into tribe these days, I get frustrated too easily with technical *issues*

I spent a bit of time on Face-crack, then quit. Such a time suck. I'm an Aquarian - I love people and connections - you'd think I'd love it?

Ii find it too A.D.D.
I prefer my correspondence to be more intentional, not just a convenient 'howdy'.

I want to put energy into the people who take time to write me something more personal and intimate. I am also doing a bit computer job which requires me to be on this box about 10 hours a day, so although I live way out in the middle of nowhere, I've chosen NOT to do either Twitter or Facebook.

Hey, wait a minute = what am I doing HERE?????


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Do I tweet? Way too much if you ask my wife. I posted 312 times back in the Fall '08. That's the most I have in one month. I love twitter. LOVE it. But it's also addictive, and in some ways the fact you are limited to 140 characters per tweet is both limiting and freshing. I tend to ramble, so twitter forces me to re-think my excessively verbosity into 140 character snippets. I also have tapered off my tweeting. It can, like any social media (or most ANYthing for that matter) be addictive. As I mentioned in my "I'm back, if only for a moment" rant, I have replace tribe with twitter the past year or so.

I like FaceBook too, way more than MySpace (god damn that flaming hunk O' shit lameass horrible interface and technical FUBARasity. Did I type that out loud? Oh my. Down skippy, down! (my evil twin, he gets out of control))

I tend to use Facebook as a way to stay connected with old friends, family I normally would not talk too other than at family reunions or weddings, and as a feed for my twitter babble (I too have my Facebook status updated from my twitter account)

Let twitter pull you in Rich. Try it for 30 days, and then quit cold turkey if needed. Or not. Twitter has replaced tribe as my main source of non-meatspace connection with people. It also is one of the best damn networking tools out there. I found a new job via people I met on twitter, as well as have made more connections with people in my area in 3 months on twitter than I did in 4 years of living here (I don't get out as much as many, and I tend to scare off the uninitiated, so factor that into my equation)

I have been on Twitter for just 4 days and I already have 200+ people I am following and 153 that are following me. There are high quality people there and a lot of action. I get new messages to my home page almost every 1 or 2 minutes. I also like the fact that updates have to be brief. I also like getting updates from people like Al Gore, Byron Katie and so forth. Many well known people use Twitter. Also it is a paradise of great links. It is mostly about linking actually and building an audience. You can find me there at bruceterrell and find good people to follow in my "followers" section. .

Gosh I am such an old lady. I don't tweet or use facebook. I like tribe because we have actual conversations. I don't feel like poking people with cute little aps so facebook doesn't interest me and I'm not interested in hearing about everyone's every thought so no way is twitter a good place for me.
Maybe I'll feel differently when there is no more tribe.