Twitter Sucks Balls

Heard this one before right? Twitter is a massive waste of time. This one comes from Scott Karp. Anne Truitt Zelenka responds in what I found to be a very articulate and well written post.

For what it’s worth I fall into the everyone is entitled to their opinion and should express it category. I also fall into the don’t make the mistake of confusing your judgement for the objective truth category. And I also fall into the if you think it sucks and want to say so then always leave the conversation on a high note and articulate ways in which you think it wouldn’t suck category. For example, I think the political system by which we govern ourselves in America is run by goons and crooks. It would be better if we could elect monkeys cause they are cute and have better short term memory than their less fury cousins. This for an example.

Specifically in response to Mr. Karp’s opinion, I hold dear to the notion that the world could use more folks who actively waste some of their time. We’re a nation that takes time way too seriously. Fill it, manage it, define it, spend it, buy it, jerk it off. I say waste a little of it. So when someone tells me Twitter is a waste of time I start to think I should use it more than I do. ((I tried to avoid my penchant for decent into existential rumination but it appears to be a compulsion I can’t avoid so I will let fly in this footnote here that time is an illusion, a human construct that can be bent, broken and dismissed in any number of creative ways. So when we talk of time and wasting it or using it what we’re really doing is missing the point entirely. Time is not a commodity. It isn’t anything, or more often than not it becomes a prison from which we whittle our days… Footnotes are great aren’t they. Like a garbage can for the erratic mind, which would not be the proper use of the footnote, and my college professor would be aghast at me for saying so, but this is what they become on a weblog. And it is a good thing.))

December 13 2007 11:27:42 AM EST