{"id":499,"date":"2009-06-20T14:36:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2009-06-20T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T18:36:48","slug":"im-afraid-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"I’m afraid of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

AND<\/strong>, I don’t understand all the functionality.\u00a0 But that’s not the only reason for my fear.\u00a0 I have the Facebook-style fear of being hounded by those I don’t know or don’t want to know.\u00a0 As far as functionality, I’ve had a Twitter account for some time.\u00a0 I only got it because I wanted to ‘paste my taste’ with Progfreak.com<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s supposed to be a place for rating music, but I gave up on that pretty quick.\u00a0 What I really wanted was to show off what I had been listening to.\u00a0 Somehow Twitter picked up info coming off last.fm and generated this:<\/p>\n

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I have no idea how<\/strong> that works, but it does<\/em> work.<\/p>\n

I’m now interested in getting and giving ‘updates’, as I see the way those 140 characters have insinuated themselves into mainstream communication.\u00a0 And it’s simple and clean, unlike Facebook, which I find complex and annoying.\u00a0 I think I understand what the ‘@’ is for, but I still don’t understand ‘#’.\u00a0 I also don’t understand what other things I might be able to do, beyond just making asinine comments and reading other people’s updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AND, I don’t understand all the functionality.\u00a0 But that’s not the only reason for my fear.\u00a0 I have the Facebook-style fear of being hounded by those I don’t know or don’t want to know.\u00a0 As far as functionality, I’ve had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,23],"tags":[26,446,447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}