The Oatmeal: How to Suck at Facebook
I joined facebook about a year ago. After the initial rush was over, I find I visit ~monthly.
The last panel is one reason why I fear twitter. I imagine feeds like
need more fiber in my diet
scratching my butt. feelin’ good.
Some things just don’t need to be shared
That might be, but as someone who uses twitter to communicate with friends in the science and science-education community, I can tell you that I don’t see those irrelevant ‘tweets’ often. What you see depends on the people you follow, so seeing as I follow physicists, astronomers, NASA and the likes, I get to communicate (though in a slightly weird spelling, granted) with these people, see their links and their points, follow their commentary on live events like NASA launch (or the iPad 😉 and others.
I think twitter can be a nice 2-way communication community if you know who to follow. I already managed to get a NASA person to answer me live, communicate with astronomers around the world about a weird sighting, and other nice ‘tidbits’. It’s like a news ticker that can answer back 😉
It takes some getting used to, but it’s not all about people’s bowl movement, not at all. Try it, you might like it 🙂