Comments on: After Twitter, Comes Grunter, Then Grimacer

By: etchasketch

etchasketch — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:02:19 +0000

In a world where so many people are completely unaware of the decisions, conflicts, and people that essentially govern their lives, I find it depressing that so many people would rather “tweet” about what they just had for lunch than educate themselves about the world that surrounds them. If people are going to spiral down further into their awful habits, ending up grunters and grimacers, I seriously fear for our future. On the other hand, is it better if people who have no interest in current affairs remain uninformed and uninvolved with the efforts of those who truly care?

By: How the Common Man Sees It

How the Common Man Sees It — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:56:39 +0000

I thought you were going to say after Grunter and Grimacer would come Geithner

Most kids today probably wouldn’t know what a Geithner was. Probably many of their parents would tell them it is a tax avoidance program

But seriously, after Grimacer would come yewdewit. In this age of new volunteerism everyone will have someone else post for them. It will be extremely popular as a time saver but what will be lost on them is where all their free time went

By: aitrader

aitrader — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:43:19 +0000

Hey, get your twat off my sheet!

By: tenaciousd

tenaciousd — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:02:44 +0000

Thanks for the ideas, BR. I’ve just raised $140MM in venture capital to launch both services within the next three months. I’m a multi-millionaire!

P.S.: My lawyers will be sending you a cease and desist letter regarding both terms, which I have trademarked. Nothing personal, just business. You know how it goes. See you in the Hamptons!

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:50:05 +0000

“…Who wants advertisers to reach them 24×7 on their iPhone–not me.”– resipsaloquitur

view:
Locational privacy (also known as “location privacy”) is the ability of an individual to move in public space with the expectation that under normal circumstances their location will not be systematically and secretly recorded for later use. The systems discusssed above have the potential to strip away locational privacy from individuals, making it possible for others to ask (and answer) the following sorts of questions by consulting the location databases:

Did you go to an anti-war rally on Tuesday?
A small meeting to plan the rally the week before?
At the house of one “Bob Jackson”?
Did you walk into an abortion clinic?
Did you see an AIDS counselor?
Have you been checking into a motel at lunchtimes?
Why was your secretary with you?
Did you skip lunch to pitch a new invention to a VC? Which one?
Were you the person who anonymously tipped off safety regulators about the rusty machines?
Did you and your VP for sales meet with ACME Ltd on Monday?
Which church do you attend? Which mosque? Which gay bars?
Who is my ex-girlfriend going to dinner with?
Of course, when you leave your home you sacrifice some privacy. Someone might see you enter the clinic on Market Street, or notice that you and your secretary left the Hilton Gardens Inn together. Furthermore, in the world of ten years ago, all of this information could be obtained by people who didn’t like you or didn’t trust you.

But obtaining this information used to be expensive. Your enemies could hire a guy in a trench coat to follow you around,but they had to pay him. Moreover, it was hard to keep the surveillance secret — you had a good chance of noticing your tail ducking into an alley.

In the world of today and tomorrow, this information is quietly collected by ubiquitous devices and applications, and available for analysis to many parties who can query, buy or subpeona it. Or pay a hacker to steal a copy of everyone’s location history.

It is this transformation to a regime in which information about your location is collected pervasively, silently, and cheaply that we’re worried about.
http://www.eff.org/wp/locational-privacy

the 168. Track n’ Trace Economy is unfolding (enveloping us) as we /speak/..

By: torrie-amos

torrie-amos — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:14:23 +0000

fwiw, imho, it’s all becoming less important, it is viewed by most as entertainment, it will fade, i have been on a few sites since 01, in 05 i noticed a drop-off maybe 30%, first down leg?, this year has had another one, down another 30%…………i’ve always said the inet allows quicker and faster, everything we do on the inet for the most part today we could do 20 years ago, if one so desired, we essentially have access 24-7 to the library of congress, ie, any library, of course though we have always had that………my fav is, “oh, i’m recconectin with old friends”…….let’s be honest folks they have always been a phone call away, they are aquantances, nothing more, transitory……..in a half an hour i’m going to work out, does anyone really care, lol, except me, after that i will………

By: bobmitchell

bobmitchell — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:15:29 +0000

I thought it was all over when I heard the past tense of a “tweet” was a twat about 4 months ago.

Shows my forecasting ability.

By: aitrader

aitrader — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:38:17 +0000

Twitter, groaner, grunter, grimacer, and now … sh***er. Send your friends a “sheet” and let them know whether it’s #1 or #2.

By: Whammer

Whammer — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:23:14 +0000

@cvienne, do you think we need “Groaner” to add to “Grunter” and “Grimacer” in the lumberjacking scenario outlined above?

By: onaroll

onaroll — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:50:03 +0000

One of the great uses of twitter is as a search engine. It’s what people are thinking about NOW. Compare your next google search with a twitter search. Figure out how to use the crosshatch as a tag, eg, search for #tornado and you’ll get tweets from people in tornados NOW. That’s why it’s such a great disaster communication tool.

Twitter is like a car. With a car you can joyride or drive to work or rob bank. Twitter is just a tool and it’s up to you to figure out how to use it.