Hey, #14, ordering the second cheapest wine on the menu is a perfectly good restaurant strategy.

Bizarre.

Don't miss the "All-Time Top" list.

1: That's what I always do.

I was warned by a friend that she was going to send me to tweetingtoohard if I didn't stop writing about what I was cooking myself for dinner, so now I put it on FB. :-(

Brett Schulte really is a tool of tools, isn't he? (In the top ten and the author of the item linked in 2.)

Compare six and eight.

about what I was cooking myself for dinner, so now I put it on FB.

Apparently, the only things I ever put on Facebook revolve around food, work, or my cat. My friends jokingly* complain.

*I must believe that it is jokingly or my self-esteem will plummet.

Compare six and eight.

Also ten.

Looking at his twitter page, one of the recent tweets is "Unfollowed my mom. Is that bad?"

I give up:

It must be sad to be other people since I've got all the awesome.

Aw, don't feel bad, Stanley. You've got a little awesome.

11: Aw, thanks, sugar dumpling.

It must be sad to be other people since I've got all the awesome.

On this thread, the awesome; on the other, the offal.

I have no idea who Brett Schulte is, but the fact that so many consider him full of crap is reassuring.

It's odd: I'm certainly not technophobic in general, and I'm all over this blog and a few others, and yet I know nothing about Twitter, don't update my Facebook page regularly at all, and don't play any of those games on it people keep inviting me to. I'm embarrassed to say "I don't get" about any new online toy, but I don't get Twitter. That's an unusual thing to be embarrassed about, right?

15: On the other hand you could be the guy highlighted in 5,6 and 8 who has this string of tweets about twitter.

Really sick of all these dumb people pretending to use Twitter because they think it's "the cool thing".

If you weren't on Twitter in 2007 you are NOT an authority on social media. At all.

Guy next to me just mocked my 2G iPhone as an "inferior product". If he only knew who he was talkng to...

I liked Twitter better when it was just techies and early adopters.

I remember very well when Twitter went live. I thought, well what the fuck is the point of that?

That's an unusual thing to be embarrassed about, right?

No, Twitter is a) stupid and b) used in wildly different ways, many of which have little to do with the original intent, which was basically to send group text messages. All of that makes it hard to "get" what anyone is actually doing with it when they make their messages public.

Also, Cyrus, please join me in the proud ranks of those who will fall on an actual sword before posting on Facebook. (I said similar things about roller coasters and cell phones in the past, but I'm *not* caving on this one.)

I've "tested the waters" of Facebook in violation of their terms and agreements by registering under this pseud. I've been amazed/appalled at the number of real life people that has triggered "invitiations" or whatever to friend me. It clearly is a most effective conduit to deanonymize the pseud and I will probably shut it down soon.

15, 17, 18: My first exposure to Twitter was via Flophouse residents, who used it to send private messages to a group of their peeps along the lines of, "Hey, we're at this bar. Come join us!" That seems perfectly reasonable.

The rest of it is shiite. Except for Sockington, of course.

Hey, I thought it was just because I was old. And anti-social.

22: Yeah, me too.

Maybe I'll join the Book of Faceless.

Sending messages soliciting company at a bar isn't shiite. I can grant that.

24. But that is why god gave us SMS.

I'm currently experimenting with Facebook. So far the take home lesson appears to be that it's not very well optimized for misanthropic loners.

26.2: it's not very well optimized for misanthropic loners.

Unlike real life.

Also, Cyrus, please join me in the proud ranks of those who will fall on an actual sword before posting on Facebook

I will join you. No Facebook or Twitter account for me.

26 - It's working out fine for me...

But that is why god gave us SMS.

Says someone living in a country with a highly functional phone service.

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Also, Cyrus, please join me in the proud ranks of those who will fall on an actual sword before posting on Facebook.

Sorry, but I do use Facebook, just not nearly as much as it seems most users use it. A few weeks ago I was updating my status almost daily, and now I'd estimate once a week, but from the end of college until two months ago I would go several months at a time without changing anything about my status or profile or wall. I'd log in roughly once a week, accept friend invitations from people I knew, click "ignore" on all those game applets/plugins/whatever people kept inviting me to join in, and log out.

And, of course, I play World of Warcraft. I don't know why I didn't mention that in my original "I'm tech-savvy, honest I am" list, except that it didn't fit the parallel structure.

I might be more interested in Twitter if I hadn't heard about it from a bunch of Social Networking PR specialists--they just made it seem creepy.

This website is really amazing.

33: I've begun to wonder if it's like the FML site, where almost certainly some of it has to be made up, right?

I think some of it is generated specifically in hopes of nomination.

But not Brett Schulte -- he's the real deal.

I so hate my projected image of most of the people on there, based on what they said, that I got queasy reading it. Bleah.

These folks should perhaps subscribe to this feed.