As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.
I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.
Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.
I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.
Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.