TRUMP: Holier Than Thou....

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

I lasted on Twitter about a week.  Waste of time.

For me, it's been very useful. been in direct contact with some of my musical heros that way. not many other ways to do that. but, I will admit, I have wasted many an hour on there being drawn into the negativity. 

It was also taking too much of my time.  Between news sites, emails, Facebook, a few blogs I occasionally browse and these forums, I already spend plenty of time on-line.  Sometimes I think maybe too much.  As warped and injured as we've made it, the real world out there awaits!

yeah, I spend way more time on social media than I should. I'm on here at work, but at home I'm on facebook and twitter. I guess it's equivalent to the old days of spending a couple hours reading the paper, but it just seems different to me. I also watch very little tv. 

when it's nice out, and not mars-like temps, I'm on those way less. But right now, holy shit. 

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

I lasted on Twitter about a week.  Waste of time.

For me, it's been very useful. been in direct contact with some of my musical heros that way. not many other ways to do that. but, I will admit, I have wasted many an hour on there being drawn into the negativity. 

It was also taking too much of my time.  Between news sites, emails, Facebook, a few blogs I occasionally browse and these forums, I already spend plenty of time on-line.  Sometimes I think maybe too much.  As warped and injured as we've made it, the real world out there awaits!

yeah, I spend way more time on social media than I should. I'm on here at work, but at home I'm on facebook and twitter. I guess it's equivalent to the old days of spending a couple hours reading the paper, but it just seems different to me. I also watch very little tv. 

when it's nice out, and not mars-like temps, I'm on those way less. But right now, holy shit. 

I rarely watch TV as well. 

Funny (and OHHH how we digress, lol), I just read Patti Smith's fine book M Train in which she mentions a number of times stuff about her favorite contemporary detective shows.  I've had this somewhat smug attitude about what a waste of time TV is and here's this creative person I admire so much who has made some great music and written some fine books and knows tons about literature and she's... a detective show fan?  We'll I'll be darned!

the romantic (and probably mostly incorrect) images we have in our heads about what our heroes do in their spare time, eh? 

Gern Blansten said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

I lasted on Twitter about a week.  Waste of time.

For me, it's been very useful. been in direct contact with some of my musical heros that way. not many other ways to do that. but, I will admit, I have wasted many an hour on there being drawn into the negativity. 

Yeah I have migrated to Twitter....I used to hate it, didn't understand it.  But damn you can get great information directly from reporters, etc. on there.  They don't post on fb....twitter is kind of the serious news feed and fb is recipes, etc.

Go Beavers said:

Gern Blansten said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

I lasted on Twitter about a week.  Waste of time.

For me, it's been very useful. been in direct contact with some of my musical heros that way. not many other ways to do that. but, I will admit, I have wasted many an hour on there being drawn into the negativity. 

Yeah I have migrated to Twitter....I used to hate it, didn't understand it.  But damn you can get great information directly from reporters, etc. on there.  They don't post on fb....twitter is kind of the serious news feed and fb is recipes, etc.

The comments on trump and other current events on twitter are hilarious. I like the immediacy of it, but you always have to be careful to what’s acutally true and been vetted. E.g. if you follow Seth Abramson, you can get swept up into thinking trump is going to prison this Thursday.   

Go Beavers said:

Gern Blansten said:

Go Beavers said:

Gern Blansten said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

I lasted on Twitter about a week.  Waste of time.

For me, it's been very useful. been in direct contact with some of my musical heros that way. not many other ways to do that. but, I will admit, I have wasted many an hour on there being drawn into the negativity. 

Yeah I have migrated to Twitter....I used to hate it, didn't understand it.  But damn you can get great information directly from reporters, etc. on there.  They don't post on fb....twitter is kind of the serious news feed and fb is recipes, etc.

The comments on trump and other current events on twitter are hilarious. I like the immediacy of it, but you always have to be careful to what’s acutally true and been vetted. E.g. if you follow Seth Abramson, you can get swept up into thinking trump is going to prison this Thursday.   

that guy is great...his threads are amazing

I like em too. I definately have a different emotional response though. A well written news article on collusion leaves me in a state of ‘well there’s a good chance he’s gone’. With Abramson I’m like ‘THAT MOFO IS GOING DOWN!!!’