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Learyfan
It's the psychedelic movement!



Registered: 04/20/01
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ToiletDuk said: Never been on it, and I don't want to, either.
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memes
Blessed



Registered: 01/11/05
Posts: 27,785
Loc: In a Tree
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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Learyfan]
#10506530 - 06/14/09 07:45 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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I want a T. Leary jersey. thatd be dope.
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Learyfan
It's the psychedelic movement!



Registered: 04/20/01
Posts: 34,083
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Re: fuck twitter [Re: memes]
#10506539 - 06/14/09 07:46 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Dude, you should Twitter that!!
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Tranquil Toad
A.I. Living Inside the Internet

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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Learyfan]
#10506559 - 06/14/09 07:51 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't have a cell phone, facebook or twitter. If I fall any more behind the times I may just disappear from society completely, only emerging from the dank hollow out in the woods that I call my home to buy toilet paper and to try and score some weed.
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Chubba
Vape hungry

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I don't have a cell phone, facebook or twitter. If I fall any more behind the times I may just disappear from society completely, only emerging from the dank hollow out in the woods that I call my home to buy toilet paper and to try and score some weed.
Yep, no mobile phone here either.
Facebook, don't get me started on that.
Twitter seems to take the cake though.
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skatealex2
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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Chubba]
#10506645 - 06/14/09 08:05 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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all these online networking shits piss me off including my cell phone...................
but I find facebook a good way to contact someone if I ever need to but the whole status thing is fucking lame---------------------
but lately I'd have to go agree with Coaster- Twitter is so fucking ghey- do we really need to know every little goddamn fucking movement someone makes
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SampaJasli
Stranger



Registered: 04/09/07
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Although I don't use Twitter, I can definitely see its merits. Like any tool, it can be used constructively or not. I guess for many people it's just another way feed their narcissistic / voyeuristic tendencies. But that doesn't mean it's stupid.
What I don't understand is why people always hate on the next new thing. Everything will eventually change, and we live in a technologically driven society - it's only natural that there will be all kinds of novel gadgets and gizmos being introduced that affect us in little ways.
Plus, if you don't like something, there's always the advice that no one likes to follow: ignore it.
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Chubba
Vape hungry

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I hate being "connected", I might knock the internet on the head at some point (too much good information atm).
I'm the only person I know without a mobile phone, it's a great feeling... once I leave the house nobody can contact me.
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Polk_Audio3
Moon Cricket



Registered: 02/16/09
Posts: 7,163
Loc: Amsterdam
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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Chubba]
#10507723 - 06/14/09 10:50 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have heard a lot of people talking about that! I have not even looked at the place.
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WhiskeyClone
Not here


Registered: 06/25/01
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Loc: Longitudinal Center of Canada ...
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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Coaster]
#10507784 - 06/14/09 11:02 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sampsa Jasli is the only one in this thread who knows what he's talking about. Twitter will change the world.
It is not about what's for breakfast. If you still think the appeal of Twitter is to broadcast the minutae of your life, then of course you'll think it's dumb.
If somebody only talks about breakfast, then you unfollow them and you follow someone else who's talking about something interesting or useful.
Everybody is constantly dropping the people with nothing to say, and following innovators and up-and-comers. Everybody is always expanding and refining the network of people they follow, collecting the attention of people with all sorts of skills and insights, and dumping people with nothing to contribute.
It's like a giant bubble sort for finding the best and freshest minds in any field, on any topic. A search engine where actual human beings -- not just algorithms -- answer your questions and send resources to you.
If your network is big enough, you can have doctors answering your health questions, music fans discovering your music, expert mechanics telling you how not to get ripped off, David Lynch reading your essays, deal-hunters sending you the best prices, anything. You can find out in real time where the action is in your city, or make connects in a place you're traveling to. Making contact with people is easy.
Twitter is providing a real-time mechanism that accelerates the natural selection of ideas in any realm: business, science, culture, art. This is a side effect nobody predicted, and it's a very big deal.
In five years all of you will be doing this in some form. Most people are still at the "Fuck twitter I'm sick of hearing that word" phase, but that's fine. No need for everyone to jump on the bandwagon at once. Mark my words though, it will change communication forever. Dig up this post in five years.
-------------------- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. ~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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MuddinPede
Stranger



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You make a very good point, but I've never had a myspace or facebook. Never really seen the need for one
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joe Biggs


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twitter was the first social connection / communication website that i actually heard from the media before friends and peers. thought that was odd.
whiskey you make a valid argument. yet the fundamentals of your opinion are false for twitter is not used to exchange insight and opinion, dropping those who dont contribute and following those with innovative ideals. rather it is a social hierarchy established by the media and hollywood, as well as narcissistic indulgence.
but twitter does have the potential to change the world in the way you described, yet it will be unsuccessful until the public stops carrying that some celebrity went yacht shopping that day. and every individual stops sharing the fact that they ate a good slice of pizza.
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Silversoul
Rhizome


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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Coaster]
#10511767 - 06/15/09 04:05 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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I didn't see much use for Twitter until this uprising in Iran started happening. For these protesters, it's their only lifeline to the outside world. In a situation that's been shamefully under-reported in MSM, Twitter has seen its finest hour by giving a voice to those Iran whose other means of communication are being shut down.
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AmericanPsycho
Abomination of Nature



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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Learyfan]
#10511802 - 06/15/09 04:11 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Learyfan said: Dude, you should Twitter that!!

Where do you get all these RANDOM pictures?!?!!?!
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MisterMuscaria



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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Coaster]
#10511812 - 06/15/09 04:14 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Twitter is lame. I dont understand it or why anyone would want to use it.
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sjacobn
not so strange


Registered: 04/26/07
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Loc: New York
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He finds them on twitter. It's an awesome place really, you should check it out sometime.
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skatealex2
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AmericanPsycho said:
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Learyfan said: Dude, you should Twitter that!!

Where do you get all these RANDOM pictures?!?!!?!
Don't you know Learyfan is really T Leary himself
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MrBump
Third prize is you're fired



Registered: 10/01/02
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Re: fuck twitter [Re: Coaster]
#10512114 - 06/15/09 05:14 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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AnarchyXx420xX
nomnomnom



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Re: fuck twitter [Re: MrBump]
#10512137 - 06/15/09 05:19 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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twitter is
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skatealex2
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Quote:
AnarchyXx420xX said: twitter is
twitter is cute shit?
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