I just don't get the appeal of twitter and facebook. Writing little bits about your life every five minutes, taking pictures of your lunch... telling everyone about exactly where you went with who. It all just seems so narcissistic. (Aside from hipsters, the other big group that seems to farking LOVE twitter is desperately upward-moving middle managers. OH, the seminars they went to!)

My life is just not that interesting. But living it is at least more interesting than writing about it.

USENET and forums that officially focus on some topic (or heck, even Fark threads) let you meet and interact with people, but you learn about them by talking about some shared interest. THAT I quite enjoy. You can contribute or make a joke or whatever without just shouting "hey! Look at me! I'm awesome!" to an empty room.

Following news topics on twitter is something else, but surely that puts most people into the "following more people than follow [them]" category.

Still - I can see how for the marketers these tools (and the obsessiveness of their users) ARE a dream. Basically they've gotten target market populations to do the "cool hunting" within that population for them, for free.

Then the company just needs to woo the cool kids with limited-edition free stuff, so that limited edition stuff becomes the ultimate height of cool, with the company logo branded on the side. Profit.

what_now: After Valentina Monte accepts a date, the Boston University junior quickly goes online to see how many Twitter followers her suitor has. She checks her own follower count three times a day. When she meets someone who admits to following more people than follow him, she judges. "That means you're a loser.'

Anger. Rising.

A quick Google search reveals that she is an intern at a marketing/advertising company, and it is most likely her job to promote this sort of thing. This wasn't a news article, it was a press release.

WHY IS THE WORD HIPSTER IN THIS HEADLINE?!

Bloody jesus pete, you people.

I would also like to pile on the "she's a vapid moron" bandwagon. Farking hell.

Garth Holsinger, vice president of global sales and business development at the San Francisco-based Klout, sees the desperation on a daily basis. "People call and say, 'I work in social media, and I'm going to lose my job if my score doesn't rise.' We get celebrity managers asking how they can get their clients' scores higher. We get people who are literally crying because their Klout score went down.''

This is one of the most pathetic things I've read in a long time.

sweetmelissa31: I have yet to meet someone in real life who uses Twitter.

It has its uses, but using it to judge social status does make her a vapid moron.

Nabb1: I hope those people get sterilized.

Shouldn't matter. I can't envision anyone who takes this seriously having sex.

patrick767: I would also like to pile on the "she's a vapid moron" bandwagon. Farking hell.

Garth Holsinger, vice president of global sales and business development at the San Francisco-based Klout, sees the desperation on a daily basis. "People call and say, 'I work in social media, and I'm going to lose my job if my score doesn't rise.' We get celebrity managers asking how they can get their clients' scores higher. We get people who are literally crying because their Klout score went down.'

This is one of the most pathetic things I've read in a long time.

He's advertising his company and is either exaggerating or flat out lying.

sweetmelissa31: I have yet to meet someone in real life who uses Twitter.

Me either, but if I started, I'd want you to be my first tweet...

Is that right?

Well, at least this weeds out another kind of person that I won't ever hang out with or give the time of day.

/Sadly, my older brother jumped on the Facebook bandwagon when he got an andriod phone.
//Luckily, I don't have an account to see his daily dinner updates.

No one uses twitter but marketing and PR firms, to twit to eachother about their own press releases and look like they are ACTUALLY doing something.

Ooh. She would have a problem with me - she wouldn't even be able to find me. How would I rate ?

what_now: After Valentina Monte accepts a date, the Boston University junior quickly goes online to see how many Twitter followers her suitor has. She checks her own follower count three times a day. When she meets someone who admits to following more people than follow him, she judges. "That means you're a loser.'

Anger. Rising.

Why do you care what some insipid twat thinks? You should be happy that she should be so dismissive, means you don't have to be.

I think a ho needs a slap, a life, and probably a job.

When she meets someone who admits to following more people than follow him, she judges. "That means you're a loser.'

That's right, you're a loser!
.

Valentina Monte's Twatter:

Valentina's Twatter (SFW)

twitter...more like twatter...amirite!?

Coming on a Bicycle: Ooh. She would have a problem with me - she wouldn't even be able to find me. How would I rate ?

Heh! As far as she's concerned, you don't even exist.

/i hate hipsters
//goddamitsomuch

Tatsuhiko: Well, at least this weeds out another kind of person that I won't ever hang out with or give the time of day.

/Sadly, my older brother jumped on the Facebook bandwagon when he got an andriod phone.
//Luckily, I don't have an account to see his daily dinner updates.

At least Facebook serves the purpose of connecting with lost friends, Twitter is really for celebrities or people who post as TheGoddamnBatman. The other purpose it serves is an adjunct for protest groups and news to leak out of closed societies.

I think people rush to judge Facebook when it can really let you know which of your friends are actually huge douchebags. I think it also airs some politics that people normally wouldn't discuss, so that can be interesting.

Plus you can troll your real-life friends, if you're into that.

Doink_Boink: Valentina Monte's Twatter:

Valentina's Twatter (SFW)

phedus: twitter...more like twatter...amirite!?

Nice simulpost.

This news article read like one big press release for multiple companies/personnel.

Companies/personnel that I would absolutely love to cock slap.

ne2d: Anger. Rising.

A quick Google search reveals that she is an intern at a marketing/advertising company, and it is most likely her job to promote this sort of thing. This wasn't a news article, it was a press release.

ne2d: He's advertising his company and is either exaggerating or flat out lying.

These two comments. This is only a press release. This is not the real world, I guarantee it. The demographic for twitter followers and users is mainly people over 35. This is not prevalent, and this article is disingenuous. It may gain a bit of popularity, but in the end I think most people realize that celebrity status is NOT just numbers and retweets. It comes from making buckets of cash in movies and popping out eight babies at once.

itazurakko: Still - I can see how for the marketers these tools (and the obsessiveness of their users) ARE a dream. Basically they've gotten target market populations to do the "cool hunting" within that population for them, for free.

Then the company just needs to woo the cool kids with limited-edition free stuff, so that limited edition stuff becomes the ultimate height of cool, with the company logo branded on the side. Profit.

Do you work for Blizzard?

This article has nothing to do with hipsters, just put in the headline to get people riled up.

This article is total BS and is just written to get people riled up. Anybody expressing even the slightest hint of outrage or displeasure at this article has been successfully trolled / linkbaited and should give up at the internet.

itazurakko: I just don't get the appeal of twitter and facebook

I use it to follow businesses. For example, in the last few hours I learned that:

A local beer bar rotates their taps. A lot
There are two winemakers from the Loire Valley conducting a tasting at my local bottle shop
The flavor of the day is "Mint Oreo" at my favorite custard shop
A new brewery is tapping their IPA today.

I started out by being surprised, intrigued, then disgusted, and now this whole thing has just made me sad.

As information about people is expanding through technology, the methods by which we judge the worth of people are deteriorating.

But at least I got a greenlight the other day. That made me feel good about myself.

itazurakko: I just don't get the appeal of twitter and facebook.

I use Facebook mostly to show off my snowflakes to friends and relatives who give a shiat. Sometimes I share something neat I found on Fark, but that's about it. It's a good way to for me to keep in touch with folks who live out of state.

On the other hand, I have a cousin who posts something about once an hour, usually about how sick she feels, or how tired she is, or about something RAD she just found or did, and it's all for the feedback. She wants a lot of, "Feel better" and "Hang in there, you're super!" and "Good job! You're doing it right!" I eventually had to hide her posts.

/csb

ne2d:
A quick Google search reveals that she is an intern at a marketing/advertising company, and it is most likely her job to promote this sort of thing. This wasn't a news article, it was a press release.

My first thought after reading the first paragraph was 'She works for Klout'...my second thought was 'if she doesn't then she is truly a sheep amongst sheep'

I've been in the IT field since the early 90s. I know a passing fad when I see it. I don't have an iPad, and I don't have a profile on any social media sites. It's a flat-out waste of time. I employ technology that works with and for me, not devices (or social media) that require me to change my methods and environment to suit them.

Seems like the definition of hipster has become, an individual or group of people displaying a set of actions or mind sets that is odious. I guess Hitler is a hipster now?

Doink_Boink: Valentina Monte's Twatter:

Valentina's Twatter (SFW)

Such shamelessness... I can't wait until she's turning tricks on the corner.

/It's inevitable.

LandOfChocolate: A new brewery is tapping their IPA today.

Note sure why fark ate that last link.

A new brewery is tapping their IPA today.

xselectah: This article has nothing to do with hipsters, just put in the headline to get people riled up.

This article is total BS and is just written to get people riled up. Anybody expressing even the slightest hint of outrage or displeasure at this article has been successfully trolled / linkbaited and should give up at the internet.

This post has nothing to do with boobs, and was only written to piss people off.

Anyone being dismissive about people becoming irrationally upset about a BU student writing in an article about Klout scores has forgotten that 90% of internet posts are people being irrationally upset about everything from tubgirl to kittehs.

This is dumb. I guess that means my 'score' is low and I'm a loser whiner huh?

When she meets someone who admits to following more people than follow him, she judges. "That means you're a loser.''


She sounds really mature.

ne2d: Doink_Boink: Valentina Monte's Twatter:

Valentina's Twatter (SFW)

phedus: twitter...more like twatter...amirite!?

Nice simulpost.

Should have posted immediately without previewing first!!

My sister in law is one of these.

She's a mini-tyrant too on her social media pages, as if they are sacred temples of worship dedicated to her; as sacrosanct and inviolable as the virgin Mary herself.

//Why yes I'm venting.