Despite agreeing it's annoying, I'm going to push back.
This is how innovation happens. Retweets, the "@name" sytanx and hashtags all came from people molding the existing system to fit their needs... and Twitter/FB eventually just built them in. This paradigm is proof to Twitter/FB that this needs to be built in. Twitter has recently added the ability to DM tweets; I bet FB is doing something similar.
I think it's more of a privacy issue than convenience issue. Perhaps the author would rather keep it private between him and his friend that he has a particular interest.
This is it for me. Its rude and I despise it when some @'s me on a big public post. Share that shit and don't plaster my name where thousands of eyeballs can see it. Let me control what I'm connected to.
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Despite agreeing it's annoying, I'm going to push back.
This is how innovation happens. Retweets, the "@name" sytanx and hashtags all came from people molding the existing system to fit their needs... and Twitter/FB eventually just built them in. This paradigm is proof to Twitter/FB that this needs to be built in. Twitter has recently added the ability to DM tweets; I bet FB is doing something similar.
I think it's more of a privacy issue than convenience issue. Perhaps the author would rather keep it private between him and his friend that he has a particular interest.
This is it for me. Its rude and I despise it when some @'s me on a big public post. Share that shit and don't plaster my name where thousands of eyeballs can see it. Let me control what I'm connected to.