Twitter?

[Meekychuppet]

What is most ironic is that this site itself, specifically the pub section IS a social networking site. It's even named after an social networking venue.

Yeah, but it doesn't put a lot of personal info out there. Which, granted, you can change settings on for most other sites that do put a lot of personal info out there, but still.

This complaint has been around virtually since the birth of the Internet and it's a dreadfully weak argument. Phishing, Nigerian princes etc. These are the same people who borrow from a loan shark and then complain to Watchdog etc. If you didn't learn how to use it properly then you're an idiot. I appreciate the sentiment, but you probably carry more ID on your person than is available on a social networking site.

[Meekychuppet]

I for one welcome any technology that allows me to know what Stephen Fry is doing at every single minute of the day....

Has the Daily Mail condemned Twitter as the cause of knife crime and teenage pregnancy yet? Can only be a matter of time...

No, but it is directly attributable to a 7% drop in house prices.

[Kristie]

What is most ironic is that this site itself, specifically the pub section IS a social networking site. It's even named after an social networking venue.

Yeah, but it doesn't put a lot of personal info out there. Which, granted, you can change settings on for most other sites that do put a lot of personal info out there, but still.

This complaint has been around virtually since the birth of the Internet and it's a dreadfully weak argument. Phishing, Nigerian princes etc. These are the same people who borrow from a loan shark and then complain to Watchdog etc. If you didn't learn how to use it properly then you're an idiot. I appreciate the sentiment, but you probably carry more ID on your person than is available on a social networking site.

I'm sure that's very true, but I was merely pointing out that you can get more info about someone from one of those sites than you can from here.

[AshtonBlack]

What is most ironic is that this site itself, specifically the pub section IS a social networking site. It's even named after an social networking venue.

Yeah, but it doesn't put a lot of personal info out there. Which, granted, you can change settings on for most other sites that do put a lot of personal info out there, but still.

This complaint has been around virtually since the birth of the Internet and it's a dreadfully weak argument. Phishing, Nigerian princes etc. These are the same people who borrow from a loan shark and then complain to Watchdog etc. If you didn't learn how to use it properly then you're an idiot. I appreciate the sentiment, but you probably carry more ID on your person than is available on a social networking site.

I would go further and say most people throw more personal information away without shredding it that is available on the tinterwebz. (and if you think people don't rummage through bins looking for just that sort of thing, then you are mistaken.)

[Meekychuppet]

What is most ironic is that this site itself, specifically the pub section IS a social networking site. It's even named after an social networking venue.

Yeah, but it doesn't put a lot of personal info out there. Which, granted, you can change settings on for most other sites that do put a lot of personal info out there, but still.

This complaint has been around virtually since the birth of the Internet and it's a dreadfully weak argument. Phishing, Nigerian princes etc. These are the same people who borrow from a loan shark and then complain to Watchdog etc. If you didn't learn how to use it properly then you're an idiot. I appreciate the sentiment, but you probably carry more ID on your person than is available on a social networking site.

I would go further and say most people throw more personal information away without shredding it that is available on the tinterwebz. (and if you think people don't rummage through bins looking for just that sort of thing, then you are mistaken.)

I know only too well, I have been a target for ID theft - from junk mail of all things. I don't shred any more, I burn the lot.

[Clinton Huxley]

An alternative rememdy to ID theft is to simply adopt an identity that no self-respecting n'er do well would want to steal in the first place.

[Meekychuppet]

An alternative rememdy to ID theft is to simply adopt an identity that no self-respecting n'er do well would want to steal in the first place.

This idea is a thing of great beauty.

[AshtonBlack]

What is most ironic is that this site itself, specifically the pub section IS a social networking site. It's even named after an social networking venue.

Yeah, but it doesn't put a lot of personal info out there. Which, granted, you can change settings on for most other sites that do put a lot of personal info out there, but still.

This complaint has been around virtually since the birth of the Internet and it's a dreadfully weak argument. Phishing, Nigerian princes etc. These are the same people who borrow from a loan shark and then complain to Watchdog etc. If you didn't learn how to use it properly then you're an idiot. I appreciate the sentiment, but you probably carry more ID on your person than is available on a social networking site.

I would go further and say most people throw more personal information away without shredding it that is available on the tinterwebz. (and if you think people don't rummage through bins looking for just that sort of thing, then you are mistaken.)

I know only too well, I have been a target for ID theft - from junk mail of all things. I don't shred any more, I burn the lot.

I shred (double cross, lot's of little diamonds, not strips.) then take it to the local recycling centre myself.

[charlou]

I would go further and say most people throw more personal information away without shredding it that is available on the tinterwebz. (and if you think people don't rummage through bins looking for just that sort of thing, then you are mistaken.)

I know only too well, I have been a target for ID theft - from junk mail of all things. I don't shred any more, I burn the lot.

Ours gets shredded and composted for wormfood.

I couldn't get into facebook, not in too much hurry to check twitter out, either. I've no personal interest but I can see why both are so popular. I can also see how useful they are for people who want to promote something, such as mai's atheist activism and meeky's writing (I assume meeky?). Good stuff.

[Pappa]

I've considered Twitter and found it lacking. Sorry.

[Transgirlofnofaith]

Really? Can it mow your lawn? Try to keep your hyperbole somewhere within the bounds of reality.

No problem. Prepare to be hoisted by your own petard.

So are you admitting right away that you don't have an argument? And what does a small medieval bomb have to do with an argument, anyways? Sounds pretty Petarded to me.

FAIL.

I don't consider opportunities for Identity theft, potential stalking,

Simple - use the privacy settings.

Wow. That's great. And I don't care.

FAIL.

and for potential employers to judge you for your private life when it's none of their business revolutionary, except in a negative sense.

See above re: privacy settings.

Again: I don't care. We don't live in a twitterocracy, and I don't have to use twitter if I don't want to. Just like you don't have to use logic if you don't want to, but it still makes you look bad if you don't.

FAIL.

Somehow, I think that personal e-mails and posts on other sites play a part. And from what I gather, yes, twitter has played a role. But how the fuck is that a defence of the worth of social networking sites in general?

Speaking personally, they have enabled me to make friends, sell books, find old acquaintances, petition my MP, organise an anti-BNP organisation. I could go on.

Wow. That's so cool. So why do you think that everyone should like it just because you do?

FAIL.

You know what? I think that's another ad hom. Such a dismissal of someone's opinions, coupled with particularly stupid ad homs is pathetic, disgusting, idiotic, and a sure sign of the invalidity of your own opinions. Consider your post fucking reported.

Of course you think that. By doing so you get out of answering it.

So pointing out ad homs is "Of course"?
Are you admitting, then, that you used Ad Homs? And that your supposed argument doesn't have a gimpy leg to stand on?

FAIL.

The simple fact is that every complaint I have ever heard about technology like this has come from the mouth of someone who does not see what it can do for humanity.

I have more of a belief in the potential benefits of technology then you ever could.

EPIC MEGA STRAWMAN FAIL.

I note that you didn't mention the cheap fuel account on Twitter,

Well, if I don't use twitter, which has already been made clear on this thread, then logically I wouldn't have heard of it.

MEGA LOGIC FAIL.

Holy bad logic skills, Batman!

clearly because it is a great, innovative and pithy idea and it proves that innovative software in the hands of 'professional amateurs' can go a long way towards enriching life.

How is it a "great, innovative and pithy idea"? And how does one site prove such a sweeping and vague thesis?

MEGA BALD ASSERTION FAIL.

People complaining about technology and innovation are extremely amusing and very ridiculous.

So any compalints, at all, about technology and innovation, and about anything contained within those subjects or derived thereof is "very ridiculous"?

SUPER EPIC MEGA PHILOSOPHY FAIL.

You don't have to get involved, so what has anyone else's participation got to do with you?

I was stating my opinion, which I am allowed to do. And I can comment on what my opinion of it is.

SUPER KNOWLEDGE OF RIGHTS FAIL.

Nothing, but grumpy old men just want something to complain about,

Last time I checked, I wasn't a grumpy old man.

ATTRIBUTATION OF AGE FAIL.

and because it's new and it involves young people many moaners and complainers target it.

What does that have to do with anything? And how do you event know that's true?

FLOATING UNSUBSTANTIATED IRRELEVANT STATEMENT FAIL. THIS IS A FAIL OF A DIFFERENT COLOUR.

Your objection is one step away from the 'milkman's cheery whistle'.

I have no idea what the fuck you mean by that, nor do I think that it's in any way related to any sort of rational argument.

WEIRD IRRELEVANT ANALOGY FAIL.

You've gone out of your way top pick a fight over something you don't happen to like,

Just how in the fuck do you figure that? I was just stating my opinion. You were the one who picked the fight.

MEGA ROLE REVERSAL FAIL.

and now that you have been shown up you are reporting posts that illustrate how wrong you are

So me exposing your lack of logic illustrates how wrong I am?

SUPERGIANT BLACK HOLE SIZED FAIL.

I only defended it as passionately and succinctly as you attacked it.

Well, first off, I didn't attack it passionately. I attacked it logically.

GIANT INTERPRETATION OF THOUGHT PROCESSES FAIL.

Secondly, You didn't defend it "succinctly". I would call using logic defending it, but you weren't doing that at all.

GIANT IMAGINARY DEFENCE FAIL.

If you can't take it then don't dish it out.

I have been taking it. Taking it apart, if you are referring to your lame excuse for an argument.

GIANT STRAWMAN NONSENSE FAIL.

You would serve your cause

My cause? Just what the fuck so you think my cause is?

HUGE MISINTERPRETATION OF MOTIVATION FAIL.

better if you just admitted you were a little bit pig-headed about it

MEGA INTERPRETATION OF THE TERM "PIG-HEADED" FAIL.

and graciously accepted

And just what authority would you have to talk about gracious acceptance?

GIANT LACK OF AUTHORITY TO TALK ABOUT A SUBJECT FAIL.

that your disdain for a thing is not a compelling argument against it.

I was just giving my opinion about it. I don't disdain it, I just don't think it's the best thing since walking upright.

ANOTHER STRAWMAN FAIL.

What is most ironic is that this site itself, specifically the pub section IS a social networking site. It's even named after an social networking venue.

Wow. That's fascinating.

GIANT IRRELEVANCE FAIL.

The cheque for your FAIL is in the mail.

This thread is so full of your FAIL that you should have a sale on FAIL.

[Bella Fortuna]

Can you sum that all up in one sentence we can put on Twitter?

[Transgirlofnofaith]

I can sum it up in one word:

FAIL

[Existentialist1844]

SUPER EPIC MEGA PHILOSOPHY FAIL.

[Transgirlofnofaith]

SUPER EPIC MEGA PHILOSOPHY FAIL.

Thank you. I'm glad someone likes my work. I'll be here until Thursday, folks.