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Just started using Twitter

Ok guys, I just started using Twitter, you all should follow me! I think that's the right term haha. Literally my 2nd tweet EVER tonight lol
http://www.twitter.com/regaw_leinad

Added you
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I don't twit or tweet. But I do read some posts. I'll follow yours. How are you doing in your pursuit of an EVO? I'd like to help, but afraid you'd abandon the Hero like everyone else. I'd sure like to see you develop a FroYo ROM for the Hero. Let us know.
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I'll follow ya whenever my follow limit is up. Follow me if you want. @gbrilliantq
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There's a follow limit??? whalefail...

I made an account just to protect my screenname, never twitted with it. I dont think anyone really cares when I fart or where I am every 10 minutes. If they wanted to know theyll just ask.

Five reasons that explain why I have no idea why Twitter is popular...
1. All that's there is a status message. Where's the profile?
2. Abbreviating annoys me.
3. Do celebrities really respond all that often?
4. Does anyone have a life of their own and not follow celebrities?
5. Facebook has everything Twitter does and more.

I got into twitter to follow people like Cyanogen, kmobs, pershoot, etc. to get updates on roms and kernels and such. I guess I got sucked in lol.

wdfowty said:
There's a follow limit??? whalefail...
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Yeah, after you have followed 2000 people. The limit is 10% after that, up to 1,000 a day. I get around 600 new followers a day, but I usually follow that, plus whatever else I need to hit the limit.
I use twitter for news and posting news. It's not about when people fart or taking a crap, like what everyone that hasn't tried it thinks.
One of the reasons why Facebook is coping Twitter again with the Follow person feature thing. Twitter is up to 175million people. If it keeps this up, more will be using twitter than facebook. Old people playing farmville is what comes to mind from facebook anyways.

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GbrilliantQ said:
Old people playing farmville is what comes to mind from facebook anyways.
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That's so true. My grandma and grandpa have a facebook...not cool.
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Social Networks trying to take over the world?

Have you all noticed that Facebook, twitter, and other networks try to take over the world? Facebook in skyfire now, facebook is everywhere with "like" buttons, Social Networks are forced by freaking Motoblur, people reporting each their step: "I just ate Icecream!" "I just saw some weird dude." "People what to do? I got a ticket!"
Get your butt out of the computer/cellphone and go to the beach watch a sunset! Let your brain free for at least a moment!
While checking email in the morning, I see hundreds of posts from people about what they did on a hourly basis.
So pathetic. After all this I really want to delete facebook and add it to all possible filters.
What is your opinion of such invasion and zombification?

I say xda is better than facebook...
You can meet intellecual minds here
I agree, but they are not taking over the world, they are taking over people who are stupid enough to think that facebook is their life.

+1!
Completely agree.
husam666 said:
I say xda is better than facebook...
You can meet intellecual minds here
I agree, but they are not taking over the world, they are taking over people who are stupid enough to think that facebook is their life.
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+1 to everything already said. I was starting to think i was the only person left in the world who wasn't on Facespace/Mybook etc.
XDA is still the best place for social notworking. In fact i'm notworking right now!

husam666 said:
I say xda is better than facebook...
You can meet intellecual minds here
I agree, but they are not taking over the world, they are taking over people who are stupid enough to think that facebook is their life.
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just dont add the idiots and ppl u dislike ... its simple really if u have some respect for yourself and dont worry about them getting upset at you ... its your life

This is a silly thread, of course they're not going to take over the world
Llama's already have

Its strange how people used to share things such as photos, and sentimental things in real life. And now people cant wait to upload to facebook.
I must confess i'm a twitter addict though (hopefully not in the: "i'm eating a sandwich kinda way")

It's only a fad. I remember the days when Friendster was cool and everyone was on it. Then came MySpace, and in that got canned with Facebook. Once FB floats, investors are gonna put a lot of pressure on the management to monetize their assets (users) and this is gonna push the engineers to their peak frustration. They'll start using codes that users hate, and sooner or later a new social network will start, and the cycle begins anew.

sakai4eva said:
It's only a fad. I remember the days when Friendster was cool and everyone was on it. Then came MySpace, and in that got canned with Facebook. Once FB floats, investors are gonna put a lot of pressure on the management to monetize their assets (users) and this is gonna push the engineers to their peak frustration. They'll start using codes that users hate, and sooner or later a new social network will start, and the cycle begins anew.
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Ha, the first social site I was on was bolt.com and that was 11 years ago. They haven't changed that much. Its just how other feel about them.
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Coldskiesfullofblue said:
Ha, the first social site I was on was bolt.com and that was 11 years ago. They haven't changed that much. Its just how other feel about them.
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And this changes the cycle because...

sakai4eva said:
And this changes the cycle because...
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The cycle doesn't change. Its the same thing with a trendy new presentation. Maybe a single new feature.
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Coldskiesfullofblue said:
The cycle doesn't change. Its the same thing with a trendy new presentation. Maybe a single new feature.
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Why does that sound suspiciously like... an Apple product?

sakai4eva said:
Why does that sound suspiciously like... an Apple product?
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Yeah, pumped full or carcinogens (echo)Steve Jobs?
I'm sure you want your last computer you'll ever use to be pretty.
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It's Web 2.0. Social Networks take over the world. What's the next step?

How you can call this a silly thread when off topic is full of silly/****ty/non sense threads in more than 96% of it´s all content?
In fact this is one of the few interesting threads where even the only posting trolls or jokes made a serious comment! FANTASTIC thread I say!
OT will have to change, seriously if not happens it will die
MacaronyMax said:
This is a silly thread, of course they're not going to take over the world
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Im just getting really annoyed by facebook, twitter, and myspace stuff forced upon me. I install something, there yahoo toolbar forced, or facebook link.
I keep facebook just as an easy connection to friends, but not as my way of life. I go to facebook anytime and i see at least 10 of my friends sitting out there, where 9 out of these 10 post all what they did.
I also loved skyfire, but now its impossible to use it on my Magic at all. Instead of making that, they could have fixed video errors, that happen in 2 out of 3 videos. Plus there were no single movie that I could finish without an error.
Off topic: You guys should have seen the computer at my temporary workplace. It had 150 toolbars installed on IE, Starting from yahoo toolbar and ending with facebook toolbar. All kinds of notifiers and BS, forced on the noobs. Took me 2 hours to clean everything from it, including hundreds of viruses and bs.
It is clearly obvious that the goal of each social network is to capture people as many as possible. Alone I do not blame them. For the most part it is people's fault.
I was growing up in Ukraine, and a computer was something that we did once a month (if lucky enough). We did anything possible, from fishing to exploring... Were out from sunrise till sundown.
Even shared photos and proposed to girls in PERSON. Now people breaking up on freaking facebook, and seek a remedy for their problems...

AntonJart said:
Im just getting really annoyed by facebook, twitter, and myspace stuff forced upon me. I install something, there yahoo toolbar forced, or facebook link.
I keep facebook just as an easy connection to friends, but not as my way of life. I go to facebook anytime and i see at least 10 of my friends sitting out there, where 9 out of these 10 post all what they did.
I also loved skyfire, but now its impossible to use it on my Magic at all. Instead of making that, they could have fixed video errors, that happen in 2 out of 3 videos. Plus there were no single movie that I could finish without an error.
Off topic: You guys should have seen the computer at my temporary workplace. It had 150 toolbars installed on IE, Starting from yahoo toolbar and ending with facebook toolbar. All kinds of notifiers and BS, forced on the noobs. Took me 2 hours to clean everything from it, including hundreds of viruses and bs.
It is clearly obvious that the goal of each social network is to capture people as many as possible. Alone I do not blame them. For the most part it is people's fault.
I was growing up in Ukraine, and a computer was something that we did once a month (if lucky enough). We did anything possible, from fishing to exploring... Were out from sunrise till sundown.
Even shared photos and proposed to girls in PERSON. Now people breaking up on freaking facebook, and seek a remedy for their problems...
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I drove 2 hours to try to break up with my girlfriend. I just couldn't do it over the phone. It wouldn't be fair. In the end we decided to stick with each other. I like to think I'm a happier man for that

ChrisAnderson said:
It's Web 2.0. Social Networks take over the world. What's the next step?
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next step will be lowered monthly bill for web2.0 and raised monthly bill for old web ... naturally most folks will flock to the cheaper web2.0 "becuz thats what they use anyway" and by this happening , slowly will form a whitelist of "big sites" where users have a net id to sign in and u can be moderated , banned and sanctionated . the isp's will be free to push select sites(read :who they get the best offers from) at the users while the truly free internet , where anyone can make their own , and speak out , shall slowly fade away

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next step will be lowered monthly bill for web2.0 and raised monthly bill for old web ... naturally most folks will flock to the cheaper web2.0 "becuz thats what they use anyway" and by this happening , slowly will form a whitelist of "big sites" where users have a net id to sign in and u can be moderated , banned and sanctionated . the isp's will be free to push select sites(read :who they get the best offers from) at the users while the truly free internet , where anyone can make their own , and speak out , shall slowly fade away
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Actually, it's turning the other way around. The big players were bouncing around the idea of charging users more if they go to popular sites like FB and Google.

IDK why is the Op so facebook/social networks hater,
i dont have any toolbar nor viruses, eventhough i dont use an antivrus software or anything.
i have a fb account and i use it only for people i know... no need for strangers, they are always rejected...

Only room for one social networking site

So Google+ is soon to be released to the public. Do you think Facebook is to big and powerful to fall
Or is Google simply to powerful to fail?
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Facebook is dead. Google has all other smartphone competitors by the gonads now with Google+. G+ will be the prevailing social site and Google will have total control of it and whether they allow competitors to use it. Facebook will be a sinking weight on Google's competitors because of it dying off.

Only time will tell.

Both could exist - it's possible. There are the people who are sick of facebook and that whole ecosystem that want to move to the next best thing. But then there are the people who are engrained into facebook and so are their friends, and they have no motivation to leave it. Its up for grabs really.

Apple users and non geeks will stick to facebook....
The rest of us will use G+ and probably peek at facebook once a day to see what people we dont give a crap about are up to....
Or something....
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How until we see a social network from Apple??
Ping or whatever that crap was/is called doesnt count as that is obvious fail.....

conantroutman said:
Apple users and non geeks will stick to facebook....
The rest of us will use G+ and probably peek at facebook once a day to see what people we dont give a crap about are up to....
Or something....
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How until we see a social network from Apple??
Ping or whatever that crap was/is called doesnt count as that is obvious fail.....
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If Apple creates their own social networking, it will be a hype for the nongeeks. My friends love anything what apple created. -_-
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marlin29311 said:
Both could exist - it's possible. There are the people who are sick of facebook and that whole ecosystem that want to move to the next best thing. But then there are the people who are engrained into facebook and so are their friends, and they have no motivation to leave it. Its up for grabs really.
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This.^^
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They said Myspace would never go down and look what happened
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I'm using FB and G+, but i can't completely move to G+ unless a lot of my friends does the jump too.
Right now, G+ is "I-want-to-share-something-nerdy", and FB is the place i talk to my friends with no nerdy articles or questions

I got an invite to g+
I tried to get on and got a message saying there is an age requirement. If they keep the age limit too high then all the teenagers will stay on fb and get further attached to it.
Btw I'm 16, have a facebook, but barely use it

Good let the kids stay on facebook. Facebook is turning into what myspace used to be.

RinZo said:
Good let the kids stay on facebook. Facebook is turning into what myspace used to be.
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Which is why I avoid it.
I actually never used MySpace for anything besides listening to music

Agree. Let justin bieber's fans on fb. They should maintain the age requirement, it's a good thing IMO.
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RinZo said:
Good let the kids stay on facebook. Facebook is turning into what myspace used to be.
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forelli said:
Agree. Let justin bieber's fans on fb. They should maintain the age requirement, it's a good thing IMO.
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Eeeewwww
He mentioned the gay 12 year old that thinks he/she/it can sing
Oh I like your tapatalk sig btw

Is anyone actually using Google+ on a daily basis?

Is anyone using Google plus as a daily driver? I still find myself using facebook more than g+. I can do without the lack of users but I'm noticing that its not very user friendly. Just trying to manage albums seem to be a pain in the ass. Just wondering if anyone is using g+ over facebook, maybe theres some pointers they can give me. I might just lay off g+ until they improve on it a bit..

MO3iusONE said:
Is anyone using Google plus as a daily driver? I still find myself using facebook more than g+. I can do without the lack of users but I'm noticing that its not very user friendly. Just trying to manage albums seem to be a pain in the ass. Just wondering if anyone is using g+ over facebook, maybe theres some pointers they can give me. I might just lay off g+ until they improve on it a bit..
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I don't think G+ will ever surpass Facebok. I use G+ here and there but I don't think I could permanently use it over Facebook. That'd be a pretty tough transition for me.

brov516 said:
I don't think G+ will ever surpass Facebok. I use G+ here and there but I don't think I could permanently use it over Facebook. That'd be a pretty tough transition for me.
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Dependency issues? Ha ha, why would it be so hard to transition?

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MO3iusONE said:
Is anyone using Google plus as a daily driver? I still find myself using facebook more than g+. I can do without the lack of users but I'm noticing that its not very user friendly. Just trying to manage albums seem to be a pain in the ass. Just wondering if anyone is using g+ over facebook, maybe theres some pointers they can give me. I might just lay off g+ until they improve on it a bit..
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I actually started using it regularly about a month ago. Just like facebook, it took a bit of getting used to and finding all of the right buttons to push. You actually have more control over what you do. Got tired of facebook constantly changing without letting you know. I now prefer google+

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adlakeche said:
I actually started using it regularly about a month ago. Just like facebook, it took a bit of getting used to and finding all of the right buttons to push. You actually have more control over what you do. Got tired of facebook constantly changing without letting you know. I now prefer google+
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Agreed.
I still find it tough to do without many people on my facebook list though.

Moved to Off-topic.

I use G+ a few times per day. It won't be replacing Facebook for me, as practically all my friends are on there. I do like the discussions and cool posts on G+ though.

I was hoping to use g+ the way I was using tumblr. Posting pics, writing certain things that are only viewable by me. What's really getting to me though is just the way uploading pictures work. Not being able to upload a picture on my phone to a specific album really kills it for me.

I use it daily. But not as a facebook replacement. More of a place to meet new people and read interesting posts that dont involve rants and poor grammar lol.
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I guess I'll pop in here:
Nope, I don't use Google+ much at all. I started using Facebook a long time ago. When I got a Google+ account, I didn't know how to use it and it was a hassle to learn everything. I switched back to Facebook.

I used it before, but not anymore. I deleted my profile when i noticed that G+ is the same as FB. The only difference is that i have real friends on FB, and not just some random Germans and Americans that just have to show what they had for dinner today, or post 18 random Google Image images a day, just to get +1.

I have used G+ a bit to see what it's like...but I end up just using Facebook for everything social. Plus, way more people I know are on FB anyway.

I use it daily... I got tired of my feed filled with "such and such liked a photo"
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I used when it was new, but because of lack of people using it i slowly forgot it.
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chrisram88 said:
I use it daily... I got tired of my feed filled with "such and such liked a photo"
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You can "unsubscribe from comments and likes" works well for me
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I use it daily... I got tired of my feed filled with "such and such liked a photo"
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Agreed! The same reason i shifted and now prefer G+
Also with G+ i find it is much much easier to chose who I share certain posts with.

We all know about Facebook privacy issues. But, we are still using it. FB is one thing that u hate but u can't go too far from!!. Google+ I used it just to check what's hot!. I don't have many friends on google+ as on FB so maybe this other reason beside getting to used to part!
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I am using Twitter and Facebook, daily. I have G+, but I do not want to have a third social network where to "maintain" my profile...

I am & I love it.
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G+ is much better, but getting people to shift over from FB is nigh impossible which sucks

Whats the best Wifi-only IM solution to chat between iOS and Android?

Hey everyone, I didn't know where to post this. Theres a no-iphone rule in the General section, so I thought this would be safe. I would normally ask iOS questions on an iOS Forum, but this is something that I'm only going to get dumb answers on an iOS forum.
We're wanting to buy my 10 year old daughter an iPod Touch for Christmas. She actually wants an HD video camera, but the iPod Touch serves that purpose, plus it would be cool to let her iMessage chat, and Face Time with all her cousins, grandparents, ect. Everyone in our family uses iOS devices, except me.
I detest iOS with a passion, but I'm not going to be as bull-headed as to buy her a Galaxy Player, and force all our relatives to sign up for Google Talk accounts just to chat with her. iOS just makes more sense.
Heres my question: I want to be able to chat with her from my Android devices. It would be a frosty day in hell I would let her get a Facebook account, so Google Talk is the obvious choice. Except that apparently there isn't a Google Talk app for iOS. It looks like Google merged it into their Google+ app. But I'm certainly not setting her up with a Google+ account.
I want to do both Video Chat, and IM. I'm considering maybe just setting her up with a Skype account, and relying on that for both IM and Video. Anyone have any other good solutions?
Thanks

Skype, or the trusty old AIM which looks a lot different now. lol

Skype. Most other cross platform apps have limitations or make you pay.
But if you set up her G+ account then set it up completely private.
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For video chatting I recommend Tango.
Works with iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Phone. I personally like it better than Skype.

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But if you set up her G+ account then set it up completely private.
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That was one of my thoughts. My biggest concern is that she could change her settings (unwittingly). But I suppose the App probably wouldn't let her do that.
Maybe if I set up the account, and didn't tell her the password?

veeman said:
For video chatting I recommend Tango.
Works with iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Phone. I personally like it better than Skype.
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Do they allow users to search for eachother? Or do you need to know somebody's details to add them? I'm mostly worried strangers adding her, and trying to video chat with her.

impreziv said:
That was one of my thoughts. My biggest concern is that she could change her settings (unwittingly). But I suppose the App probably wouldn't let her do that.
Maybe if I set up the account, and didn't tell her the password?
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Skype servers are iffy when sending messages while the person is offline. They might they might not get them. G+ always sends them.
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impreziv said:
Do they allow users to search for eachother? Or do you need to know somebody's details to add them? I'm mostly worried strangers adding her, and trying to video chat with her.
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I'm not sure. But I haven't had any random strangers add me so it should be ok. Just monitor what she does frequently.

Gtalk seems to be best imo
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