AirGuitarist87

Sunday, Oct 4, 2009

More and more I find myself in this situation:

You meet someone you know from school/work/wherever and you strike up a conversation. But what is there to talk about? Your day? You blogged it. How school is going? Was on your Facebook update. The fight you had with your girlfriend at the party last week? You tweeted it.

With all these instant updates which don't even require you to be at a computer at the time, I find that a lot of people I talk to are running out of things to say. Luckily I don't divulge much information about myself as broadcastable news. My Facebook updates are rare and usually satirical, often the only one on my update page that has proper spelling and grammar. My tweets are fun little links I find. I don't announce my feelings or goings on en masse as I prefer to talk to people face to face about it. Trouble is now I look like I can only talk about myself. Well, at least I have something to say. >_>

What do you think? Does announcing every little thing that happens negating more from what you can say in person?

Posted by AirGuitarist87, 5:36pm

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Ps2gamer25

I slap my friends in the face for using Twitter.

Posted Oct 4, 2009 6:09 pm PT

ariz3260

I don't use facebook or twitter, but if I do I can only imagine myself blogging on it, instead of a report of detail recounts of every single little thing that had happened to me. I also notice people who developed a love of such social media outlet tend to over exaggerate on things. If that is how the person is in real life I have no problem with it. But what I usually find out is that the actual person is quite less interesting in real life that what their facebook or twitter personality projects... in my mind they are just not that genuine of a person, a huge turnoff for me

Posted Oct 4, 2009 10:37 pm PT

enterawesome

I don't use any of those twitter, Facebook, myspace, etc. Everybody who uses them excessively seems to have some sort of brain malfunction where logic, common sense, and reason don't exist, so I avoid them. Most of my friends avoid them to, so we can still talk about whatever, but face-to-face conversation dying altogether doesn't seem out of the question, because everybody's interacting on these social networks... except me.

Posted Oct 4, 2009 10:59 pm PT

bowlingotter

I blog on here, I put occasional updates on Facebook (usually articles I found interesting) and I do the Twitter thing, but rarely for anything other than replying to friends or posting links.

I had thought about social networking causing a drop in personal face-to-face interaction, but I don't think it's been the case. The people that don't talk face-to-face now are the same people who didn't before, even before these services were the norm. Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, and the like are all just additional methods of communication, not replacements for anything. In my experience, if someone has an outgoing personality, chances are they'll be outgoing on social networking sites and no less outgoing in person. Maybe others have noticed a difference, but I have not.

Posted Oct 5, 2009 6:33 am PT

t3hrubikscube

I use Facebook, but I don't get too specific there for a lot of reasons. I suppose the traditional conversation is kind of dying... There is less to talk about in a lot of ways. I can still talk to my friends quite easily, but it's become a little harder with acquaintances sometimes.

Posted Oct 5, 2009 9:13 am PT

Wolflink001

I'm not really much for blogging ether unless its something I really want to get off my chest. I have a facebook but I don't post EVERY detail about what is going on in my life. My conversations are rare and sporadic. I'll type if you type back but I don't randomly post garbage topics because there is nothing else to do... I keep it to myself. But if its something I really like talking about or interests me then I'm all ears for it. Like this topic for example...!

Posted Oct 5, 2009 4:36 pm PT

markop2003

I don't talk much in general, i don't think i've updated my facebook status since i got it either....

Posted Oct 6, 2009 2:17 pm PT

nVidiaGaMer

Studies have shown that facebookers are more talkative in real life ... of course theres always some exceptions but its the majority that are more talkative/outgoing.

Posted Oct 20, 2009 10:54 am PT

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