OK, I see the post.

What is Twitter

sticks

its a social networking site, like myspace or facebook

Twitter is basically a site where you can "follow" (not in a stalking sense, but you never know) other people, friends politicians, political parties, and now RCU. Twitter makes it really easy to post to your twitter (called a tweet) where your friends or others who are following you get that message, web page link, video etc. It makes it really easy for your message to get out to a group of people all at once. Hence Obama's use of twitter during the election. Many celebrities have their own twitter where fans can catch up with the latest that thier idols are doing. Basically you give people your twitter address, people follow you, and from then, they get all your tweets. Some people follow hundreds or thousands of people.

Tim

people get a life, its not all online.

just my thought

sticks

what? I have friend and family from all over the country I stay in contact with through it, coordinate flying days, both real and models, coordinate church functions and family gatherings. it's a communication medium just like this place, if the older generation doesn't get it or like it then that their problem, ya probably have a thing against texting to.

You mean like a phone being used as a phone and a computer being used to send e-mail??????? [sm=lol.gif]

Hogflyer

Hey Hogflyer....I'll bet we could sell these kids today on the telegraph system........you know,if they thought it was new technology.
Can't you see every kid with a telegraph key up in his/her bedroom.....tap-tap-tapping out moorse code, thinking "man am I cool"
You wouldn't be able to get them off the darn thing............"No mum, I haven't got time to come down and eat supper, I have to moorse mail all my friends"....................!!



Lm

I was just kidding, I send time on the computer. But I do not want to spend any more.

sticks

I really can't believe people that can't wait until home to use a phone. Always have a cell buried in their ear. Driving, walking or shopping. Personally, I don't even own a cell phone. I like getting away from the madness. I'm on the computer 8 hrs min all day working (or RCU) and don't need Twittering in my life either. I am on facebook but only to track down lost (misplaced) friends.

i know you were kidding, I just like to rub it in. Incidentally I have used the telegraph quit a bit, my mores code sucks though.

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oops double post

Shame shame!!!

How is your Morse code? Named after Samuel F. B. Morse

I saw a show on TV that put a couple of Morse coding HAMs up against some texting teens. They had to send a short paragraph of text. The HAMs blew away the teens, they were much faster. The teens had a regular phone keypad, not a smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard though.

I still don't get texting. If you have a cell phone, and they have a cell phone, then why enter all those keystrokes when you can just hit speedial and talk to them on the phone?!!

If you have unlimited texting, its cheaper than calling. Its also good if you just want to send a quick message like where to meet someone, let somone know if u will be late, ect. I never texted til i met my present GF. Her and her friends use texting too much. i personally dont want to text a whole conversation. Its a pain. I feel that if I want to have a conversation, I will just call. The worst part about texting, is the people who do it while driving. most people have a hard enough time focussing as it is, let alone with a phone in their hand or some other gadget.
I use facebook, but not all that often. My GF is on mine more than I am. This whole twitter thing, Im not sold on. Maybe its just the dumb name... I dont know, but one thing i do know is i dont need it. Between email, phone, RCU and facebook, I already have too much going on at once.

My 14 year old son has over 4K texts / mo[X(]

Texting is cool when you're on a conference call and you're bored and want to send useless messages to your wife

I have a cell phone,

All my flying friends have cell phones

our wives all have cell phones

All the kids/grand kids, in-laws have cell phones

Me and the flying buds use them as emergency walkie talkies only. Don't know about the others

My one son is on twitter and we've talked about it. I just don't have a need for it as a 65 yr old retired person.

We have lost all sense of humanity. We don't talk, we text. We don't call, we text. We don't discuss, we text.

By WE I mean those that text on a regular basis. I have used texting but only rarely, when I had to get some information to someone that did not need a phone call. I much prefer to talk to that person directly, better in person.

CGr.

I also don't text. I use lots of emails at work mostly to keep a paper trail. When I send an email I also request "read receipts" and store those also.

Texting is less invasive. You send a text, and that person can look/respond to it at their leisure. You can text someone while they are sleeping, or in a meeting, eating, or pretty much anywhere, and it is far less intrusive than a phone call. I have no problem answering a text in just about any situation, but I may not want/be able to talk on the phone. Most of my texts are for information that is not enough to warrant a phone call. I can text my wife that I will be home late, instead of having a 15 second conversation.

As I said, what's wrong with a phone call? If there is no answer, try again. All this texting and electronic communications has reduced us to a set of 1's and 0's. It has it's place, such as here on RCU where we can communciate about common interests in Radio Control, via a medium, RCU. Personal relationships belong directly between people.

There are limitations to what we can express via the internet, Email, and texting. What's next?

CGr

To each his own. I guess that using all those other forms of electronic communication are ok, but since you cant/dont want to text, then its just plain wrong. Whats not personal about a text that is personal with an email? Its the same thing, just with less sentences, and you get it on the go instead of sitting behind a computer. All those people that you e-mail, you could just as easily pick up the phone, and call right? So what's the difference?

I have a much bigger problem with both cell phones and texting, it's called driving and dialing/texting and having arguments on the phone while trying to drive. In my area where it's a plague, it's hard to look into a car while driving down the busy freeway without seeing most the people with a phone on there ear or in there hand reading. As soon as they are on the phone they slow down and start drifting into the other lanes. How can someone be driving on the freeway with there phone in there hand and pushing buttons and reading. I would like to have a law making it OK to paint ball drivers on the phone. Some of these drivers need to be shot at with live ammo, I almost got hammered last week on the freeway by a guy texting and drifting between lanes. I have a cell but it's never turned on, anyone I wanted to speak to it was done at home, not in my car. Clark county did a survay and it turned out 81% of traffic accidents involved cell phones in one form or another. Twitter looks like something that could be fun on the puter and a good way to stay in contact with some of the other guys use it if you like. I like my paint ball gun idea though, maybe people would get the idea sooner or later.

I think texting is absolutely fantastic. I hate small talk. I call the people I actually want to talk to, and text the people I just need to get information to. I work, go to school, fly my planes, and have a full life. I don't have a lot of time at home and I really don't want to be spending my precious home-time yapping on the phone with almost anyone, except a select few.

I have never used Twitter but don't know why I need to go online to one website to follow another one.