I had no idea what twitter was until I heard about it on tv.  I’m not going there.

Good Cartoon, very too the point, I wonder how many car accidents have occured since twitter?

I think that this just might be probable in the near future, How very prophetic you are.

I joined Twitter after being badgered down by friends (who also argued ways it could benefit my blogging.)  I knew it had no meaning to me and rarely use it.  My argument then, and now, is that it’s of much greater benefit to the text networking of teens through college students.  After that, pick up a telephone and speak to your friends.  Go see them.

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I was one of the "first" on because my family and friends are afar;  however, once it built up and the media and PREZ got on, it was horrible. I disjoined. I’m not that interesting but when I read the privacy release thoroughly and saw the bit about releasing to Google that cinched it for me.

Joined Twitter, not impressed….maybe i’m too old!!!

This whole Twitter thing seemed to be so manufactured by the media, one day it was barely heard of the next it was being hyped on every news show and talk show, it just doesn’t feel like an authentic phenomena. Yet no matter how aggressively it was promoted, it appears to be a disappointment and use is dwindling already. My guess is that anyone who jumped on the media hyped bandwagon and was all excited about Twitter, like Elisabeth and Sherri on The View, will feel silly in a year.

Liza …  WOW, your creative juices were really flowing on this one … so clever and made me smile afterwards when I even thought of "the scene".  Terrific!

Twitter, texting, all that, are manufactured "needs."  No one needs these things.  My sister complained about how high her monthly cellphone bill was, and asked me about mine.  She was amazed that I bought a cellphone and buy prepaid minutes without a contract.  My bill is just the minutes I buy—the very minimum. 

The problem is, she pays her son’s bill also (he is 17) and he insists he needs texting, twitter, and whatever the kids are doing, including every updated phone as soon as it appears on the market.  I suggested if he really feels he needs it, he get a parttime job. 

He is now working to pay his phone bill and has since downgraded what he feels he absolutely has to have.  Funny how that works.

This one made me smile!  I’m feeling a bit superior right now because I have never tweeted (twittered?) in my life.  Our 14 year old has no interest in this either, I am pleased to say.  No facebook for either of us either.  At one point, briefly, our daughter expressed interest in an AIM page.  But she quickly lost interest because there is always some sort of drama going on among her friends on these pages.  Not her cup of tea.  Like kermie b no one in our family has a contact with our cellphone.  Only prepaid minutes for us.  The kid does do a little texting, but very little.

And yet, Twitter may help save Iran from tyranny.  Wouldn’t that be amazing?