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[vicarz]

eljay really has been quiet on my list this week. I took a look at twitter - I might not be culturally similar to the normal twitter person because after reading any of them in a row - or even a page of tweets, I didn't find any of the "information" useful or interesting.

I'm quiet because I happily took some time off. I've done BORING things like clean, move out the charity items, put all those books on shelves, cleaned things, fixed things, thrown things away...my house feels more like a home, is less disgusting now. Oh and I've slept...sweet sweet sleeping. How I missed thee. It's so wild - when you're tired lying down and getting rest instead of taking a stimulant? Who knew.

I do have to note that each and every day that I didn't report to work there was a mass shooting.

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[desiringmachine.livejournal.com]

i find twitter to be really hard to follow. all anybody can post is a single line, and it's very clear in many cases that their single line is part of a much larger debate/discussion, but i can't figure out what it was in response to - it's a lot like my problem with facebook comments, they aren't nested so you have to waste time & space stating who you're replying to and then scan around to find out if they responded to your response...for this being the age of communication, we've really made it a lot more difficult.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

They haven't made it more difficult - they've made it about what people want:

They don't care about their "friends," they only want to know what is going on right now.

It's not about communicating; it's about them talking.

[desiringmachine.livejournal.com]

But I don't want that, you don't want that - we're not the only two people I've heard gripe about it. I think the biggest problem I have with our wonderous internet age is how willing people seem to be to settle for something that doesn't really work the way they want (and sometimes not at all).