I Am Back

This blog has sort of sat on hiatus, while I mostly stayed focused on my Wordpress blog. My Wordpress blog, Tales from the Beer Truck, was a project I undertook this past year in school. I've since kept it going as a hobby. But I'm renewing my interest in Making Sense in a Rambling Kind of Way as I need a place to vent in the blogosphere about all the million other issues going on in the world.

I became a serious Twitter user during the race for this year's Toronto mayoral election. (I have no doubt Toronto will eventually come to regret the election of the Homer Simpson-like Rob Ford.) In recent months I've been #tweeting like mad about events from the World Cup, the already-mentioned mayoralty race, WikiLeaks and the Keith Olbermann affair. (I sided with MSNBC. Olbermann's a journalist. He should've known better.) Then there was all my outrage at what happened at the G20 summit that took place in Toronto in late June. Was I ever angry at the way protesters were treated. I am more conservative than a lot of friends, but it does not matter if I support the protesters' issues. It was their right, especially at Queen's Park, to protest. This is Canada.

But I decided it was time I try to make sense of things again, even if I'm ranting while doing so.

Twitter

There was an article I read today in the Financial Post discussing how a study was done and 60% of Twitter users abandon the site within one month of joining the social networking site. One blogger noted, fairly, the study did not draw a comparison with sites like Myspace and Facebook.

However, I've always found Twitter to be useless. I, like many, don't use a cell phone for Internet purposes, and I don't use text-messaging as frequently as some. Sending short messages telling people "what are you doing?" can easily be accomplished on sites like Myspace and Facebook, which have more networking features than updates of what I'm doing. This makes Twitter absolutely pointless and useless to me from a home computer. Then again, I never understood why Myspace stayed bigger than Facebook for so long. I fell in love with Facebook's more streamlined, easy-to-use format with a lot less graphic-overload. Now and then I do admit to logging into Myspace for the original reason I ever joined in the first place, to discover new music. This is something Facebook hasn't outdone.