drewkumo: 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.

Sometimes kittehs get upset about internet posts

WinoRhino: 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.

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Thinking social media is a passing fad is flat-out myopic.

Not changing your methods and environment to suit technology will only eventually make you a passing fad, not the technology. It would be like using a typewriter at work.

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.

liverpoolumd: 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.

Well all these "social media directors" have to show their clueless employers they are doing something useful with the companies dime.

Also, at least 90% of twitter is automated, and thats being conservative.

No twitter account, so 0 followers, 0 followed
Let's see... 0/0
INFINITE NON-LOSER STATUS CONFIRMED!

/fark yeah!

if your main metric for esteem and self-worth is the number of people who have clicked a mouse, you likely have more problems than those clicks can ever repair.

drewkumo: Not changing your methods and environment to suit technology will only eventually make you a passing fad, not the technology. It would be like using a typewriter at work

I never said I didn't evolve with technology. I said I don't let individual fads disctate when I change my processes. Social media has yet to demonstrate practicality in the areas that I work so I don't use it.

When I started in the business there were no web browsers and email wasn't widely used. Now it is. Those were revolutionary and I saw immediate practical purpose for those. Devices like the iPad that have everyone clammoring for them don't necessarily come with a built-in purpose. If they filled an important need that could not be filled by less expensive and breakable devices, then I would employ them. For now they do not. But if you left this decision in the hands of the people that hire me, they would have blown their tech budgets on useless objects they thought were innovative and cool to have.

The iPad is currently as useful and cool as a flat Chumby.

This is what happens when you make technology usable by the less nerdy/high functioning downs people.

Twitter and hipsters will go the way of pet rocks, cabbage-patch kids and poodle skirts.

Then everyone will be saying "boy, were we dumb to get caught up in it."

It amazes me that anyone would follow her considering how vapid she is.

depmode98: 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?

I love that site

offmymeds: 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

Whatever, hipster. I can tell you're a hipster. Why don't you go hang out at Taco Bell with all the other hipsters. That's what they do, you know.

Same with this hipster in the article. I'm sick of all these hipsters with their corporate jobs writing press releases. Corporations are filled with hipsters.

calags: NittLion78: Nabb1: I hope those people get sterilized.

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

Unfortunately for the gene pool, lower IQ correlates to more frequent sex.

That would explain why Stephen Hawking keeps turning down my offers.

drewkumo: WinoRhino: 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.

[notsureifserious.jpeg]

Thinking social media is a passing fad is flat-out myopic.

Not changing your methods and environment to suit technology will only eventually make you a passing fad, not the technology. It would be like using a typewriter at work.

myspace

depmode98: 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?

Albert Speer was a huuuuuuuuge Florence and the Machine fan.

I hope to always do well professionally, but I hope just as much to never care, or need to care what my "klout score" is and I further hope to never have to do business with people who do care about such things.

The best part about this type of media is that you can choose to follow or unfollow/hide anyone you want. That way you're only reading the stuff you're interested in. If you are continually reading garbage like "I'm hungry! LOL" then you kinda have no one to blame but yourself.

I understand that people won't get into the technology, but I've had the chance to share ideas with people I would have never met otherwise. I also find myself reading more than posting, which to me is kinda like listening more than speaking.

This is the chick in the article!

Marisyana: Some pundit once said that 90% of the content on Twitter is generated by 10% of the people who use it.

Someone else once said a million monkeys hitting keys at random on a million typewriter keyboards would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Twitter has well over 100 million monkeys at this point, and nothing resembling Shakespeare has appeared. There is a proportionate amount of feces being produced, however.

Most people dream about buying mansions and cars when they win the lottery. I dream of buying enough legal protection that I can track down everyone who deserves it and punch them in the face.

This girl just made my list.

Marisyana: The ones who REALLY annoy me are the ones who post their Twitter feeds everywhere. And if they combine it with Foursquare ... I just want to reach through my laptop screen, grab them by the throat and scream STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT. Some pundit once said that 90% of the content on Twitter is generated by 10% of the people who use it. I look at my Twitter (it's for my website, created at the suggestion of my web designer) and out of the 16 I follow the VAST majority of the posts? One person. Then again, it's Roger Ebert. But there's a couple of people who aren't far behind in the Twitvomit and at least Ebert's tweets are interesting.

/follow 16, 190 follow me
//good enough for you, Valentina?

I follow 29 feeds. Roger Ebert was one of the few I had to unfollow. Too much timeline streaming with too few nuggets. Never figured him to be such a AW.

Disaster Transport: I also find myself reading more than posting, which to me is kinda like listening more than speaking.

According to Valentina, that would make you a loser.

i'd hit it.

Kelwen: depmode98: 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?

I love that site

I had no idea what you are talking about so I googled "hitler is a hipster". Seems like there is no original ideas out there now with the internet.

This all seems very very silly.

I did say silly twice, because it in fact does seem really silly

Grass Hopper: 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.

Yeah, I'd cheer up if I could get a green. I'm starting to feel pretty worthless.

/totally agree

I can't imagine what it would be like to be shot down by a chick because "follower-to-followee" ratio on Twitter sucked.

FTA: So when her Klout score hit an impressive 59 out of 100 recently, making it almost as high as Jay Leno's score of 65, she was ecstatic. "I felt worthy.''

What a sad person.

Hipster - Someone cooler/younger than you who is into something you don't understand.

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.

This! Bingo. Winnar winnar, chicken dinner.

/My fark klout score is -80
//I'll be in my parents basement sulking.

Rapmaster2000: offmymeds: 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

Whatever, hipster. I can tell you're a hipster. Why don't you go hang out at Taco Bell with all the other hipsters. That's what they do, you know.

Same with this hipster in the article. I'm sick of all these hipsters with their corporate jobs writing press releases. Corporations are filled with hipsters.

Whaaaat?

djujah: I can't imagine what it would be like to be shot down by a chick because "follower-to-followee" ratio on Twitter sucked.



(quick emotional inventory) Relieved? Dodged a bullet?

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

Consider that these are publicists he's talking about who are trying to get their clients' scores higher. A high score for a particular celebrity or company could mean that they get better endorsement deals, and so a publicist's job would very much depend on said score.

For most people, this is retarded to obsess over. But for the marketing industry, I can definitely see how it would be a useful tool and why you'd want a high score.

Trance750: I swear to God, some people, even though they are no longer in high school, still behave like they are

For some people, high school popularity is all they have, and so they'll cling to it.

I'll never forget my 10-year reunion. This really creepy drunk guy sat down next to me and kept trying to grab my boobs. At first I had no idea who it was, and then I asked... It was our prom king!

Yeah, but she's gonna need way more Whuffie than that if she wants to rebuild the Hall of Presidents without fear of reprisal from Jay Leno.

supayoda: Trance750: I swear to God, some people, even though they are no longer in high school, still behave like they are

For some people, high school popularity is all they have, and so they'll cling to it.

I'll never forget my 10-year reunion. This really creepy drunk guy sat down next to me and kept trying to grab my boobs. At first I had no idea who it was, and then I asked... It was our prom king!

Oh, yeah. Sorry about that.

Dont think this has been posted yet:

I cant wait to post a link to this article on my livejournal!

ThreeEdgedSword: Do you work for Blizzard?

Nope. I'm a cube farmer for the state.

But I did spend a bunch of time reading about cool hunters some years ago when it was one of "the" buzzwords, and found it sort of interesting and yet horrifying at the same time. All these companies desperately trying to find out who the cool kids with influence are, so they can get them to wear the designated "in" sneakers of the year, or whatever it is. Because if you get the "right" people to wear your stuff, the power is multiplied. Better yet if you can get those people to view their wearing of the merch as subversive.

Seems to me this "klout" system, if it actually works as portrayed in the article, would be their ultimate wet dream. People hunting their own selves, for free, and offering up their sweet, sweet data.

FissionMan1: The demographic for twitter followers and users is mainly people over 35.

There might be other groups of users, but absolutely I will attest that there are hordes of middle-aged people on Twitter. It's all the middle managers who aspire to move up, and they go to endless seminars and drop names about just what seminars they went to and with who, and retweet whatever supposedly wondrous nuggets o' business they learned while there. They never "post on twitter," either. It's always "tweet" with them. "Did you see the CEO's tweet??? He's just sooooo dreamy!"

LandOfChocolate: I use it to follow businesses.

That seems like a normal use, to me. Same with following news outlets - as a short RSS feed coming from a place with ACTUAL NEWS to announce, it can be a fine thing.

It's just all the "poop coming out" people and the "I'm at this bar you've never heard of, having gone to an amazing webinar today by this awesome business guru, oh, but the wine is a little off compared to what they serve at all these OTHER even more cool places I normally go, here, look at this picture of my lunch!!" people that I just don't get.

I do READ twitter from time to time. I just have nothing to post on it.

Tziva: It's always, always, always mundane, stupid crap. People talking about their lunch or bathroom habits, or making basic uninteresting observations, or giving us a play-by-play of the things they're doing. No one can possibly be so hedonistic they think that is interesting to other people. Is that even interesting to them?

That too. So much of the stuff is just PAINFULLY obviously trying to be witty, as if each writer thinks he's the first to come up with whatever observation it is and is a god to the language. If I think, "hey, I should try writing something on twitter" I quickly realize that's all I would be doing, so why bother with it? It just seems so exhibitionist. Why the obsession with recording every moment of life?

I don't mind reading (or commenting, even) on other people's things, if they truly are interesting or there's a question on some topic I can answer, but it seems every latest social network thing I've ever tried, I might get an account to be able to log in (if it's required to read or post on other things), but I never have anything to actually post myself as a top-level entry.

Like I said way upthread, meh. I prefer topic-based areas rather than anything styled as "diaries." I never kept a paper journal either.

Some of the social media have "communities" that are topic based, but on so many of them it's next to impossible to find a community that's both interesting AND not dead.

Disaster Transport: I also find myself reading more than posting, which to me is kinda like listening more than speaking.

Indeed.