Twitter ruins things!
Just read this from Josh at morethandodgeball.com. I just thought it was really true, and happens to me all the time too. These are his top three most frustrating things about Twitter.
PEACETwitter ruins good stories
Twitter steals my stories! I guess the same could be said for the blog - but I love sharing a good story about life with friends in real life but often times I get cut off because people say, "Oh yeah, I read about that on Twitter" or "I read it on your blog." Twitter is a 140-character story thief. I need to learn to save things so I still have offline stories. Wow, I can't believe I just typed that line.Twitter ruins good sports
I rarely watch sports live anymore - since the advent of the greatest invention of mankind (the DVR, thank you TiVo) I'm not even familiar with commercials anymore. But the luxury of turning a 3 hour football game into a 1 hour and 15 minute exercise in fast-forwarding-adeptness can all be spoiled when someone says, "USC lost - oh my goodness" or "I still can't believe the Angels came back from down 7." I suppose this should be punishment for not watching it live, but it still hurts when I'm coming home from church and already know the final score. Curse you, Twitter!Twitter ruins good TV
This one is all about people posting about Saturday Night Live and spoiling the bits or posting the best lines from The Office. And don't get me started on American Idol vote-offs or Survivor eliminations 3 hours before it even comes on the air here. Part of this is just living on the West Coast where everything "live" really isn't (despite most of it being filmed here at 4:30 in the afternoon), but Twitter really amplifys the problem - the news hits your cell phone before you even start thinking about Must See TV.
Doug
PS: whoever put "Douglas Cloven!!!" as their favorite superhero...I love you too.
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