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Would you consider tweets to be creations of lasting value? I think I could argue quite convincingly that Facebook's network, the connections it inspires and fa
by indigoviolet 18y ago
Would you consider tweets to be creations of lasting value? I think I could argue quite convincingly that Facebook's network, the connections it inspires and facilitates, and the social interaction it makes possible is of far more lasting value to the world and its people than any tweeting or blogging, especially when they're as devoid of content as the posts I've seen.
Making snide clever comments is easy, building something that is actually making a difference isn't.
- unalone 18y agoI actually made the same comment in response to Marco: Facebook is not valueless. Neither is Tumblr, though. I don't know if it's "making a difference" in the sense of, say, social change, but it's providing the best product of its kind in the market. That has value to me. I don't use Twitter. I think it's stupid. But creating a vast opt-in, entirely-indexed community is something of value. The fact that companies can search to find real-time who's talking about them is big and will be leveraged more in the future, and the fact that its APIs let Tweets be used for nearly anything is big too. So it has value, even if it's value I will never need myself.