Anyone who just randomly said to strangers, "I'm going to the mall!" "I'm going to take a dump" and so on would seen as irritating prick who doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. But on Twitter, that's "normal", including to Blunty.
Is it just me, or does it seem a little sadly IRONIC that a guy like Blunty would DEFEND pointless babble on Twitter as "normal human interaction"? Right... So telling a bunch of random folks around the world, "Hey, I'm going to the store." "I'm gonna eat some cake" and other crap no one gives a shit about is "normal"? That's online exhibitionist NONSENSE, and you know it, Nate. Let's face it, this/my generation has a really weird addiction to "laying it all out there", for some reason.
Of course, a Twitfreak probably wouldn't ever understand my point. Tell me this....if Twitter didn't exist, would you be phoning or emailing all your friends and family all the stuff you post on Twitter?? Would you be calling your friends 50 times a day to tell them every little "small talk" detail of your day? OF COURSE NOT. CASE CLOSED.
"So some publicity hungry so called "marketing research firm" in butt-crack Texas did some "research" that claims 40% of Twitter posts, Tweets, are "pointless babble".
Proving that they have a desperate ignorance of what social interaction IS." Sorry, but posting shit on Twitter (whether it's small talk or not) is nothing more than sending pointless babble out into cyberspace and hoping that a bunch of people will notice you. It's an ignorant, desperate attempt to get attention. Get it??
Sure, 'small-talk' IS pointless babble. I'm comfortable with saying that.
Now I wouldn't want to deny anyone their 'small-talk', but I'm sure that the internet bandwidth could be used for something far more useful. Like porn. If you have inanity to share - call someone to tell them. If it's not something that you'd call someone about - there's a reason - no-one wants to know; so spare your poor friends from your drivel!
Twitter is almost or basically like Facebook, You can text what you're doing on your wall, you can Tweet what you're doing. You can have followers, or have friends. Twitter has no way of customizing pages like Myspace, so does Facebook. So my point is. If Twitter is pointless, then Facebook should be pointless and Myspace should be the only social network site. -_-, man people need to find facts about saying that Twitter sucks, they say its pointless but they don't know anything about it.
I don't twitter, but hey, i'm not very interesting. I was once a chat room junkie though and used to use chat software all the time way back in the ICQ days.
I find facebook intrusive. I can't stand the idea of people being able to look you up and find out so much about you without you even knowing.
Yeah they are wrong...95% of tweets are pointless babble.Also your such a big idiot that you disabled comments on your profile and on your more stupid videos so ppl don't call you idiot , which still makes you idiot.
still rather be out there acutally talking to my friends than twittering about how im going somewhere, get out there and hang with your friends instead
Twitter has become the thing, but I hardly count it as social interaction. Social interaction is meeting with people one on one and have an actual conversation. However, I can understand the social network thing- hell, I have a Facebook and once a Myspace. But the thought of telling everyone what you are doing at all times is just narcissistic. No regular person is that important that they have to document every move in their life.
Small talk is one thing, but when it comes down to it Twitter is pretty damn pointless. It has many good things about it, but pointless is when people that I work with will stand there and Twit about what their doing at work. I'm sorry, but what more do you need to put there other than, "I am getting paid to Twit people about what I am doing." It is purely pointless babble. Besides small talk as you stated should lead to larger things not a GPS of your friends locations and doings.
Fair enough that that study is bullshit, but still Twitter is soo useless. If you wanna make small talk, get together with your friends. Not some random person. to be perfectly honest I find it suprising how far twitter has gotten, eventually people will realise how truely sstupid it is and twitter will fade away, like every other fad
Though it might be a "fad" to some. Those people you talk to such as friends and what not. You met randomally did you not? Small talk is how people start relationships. be it friends or what ever. Can you honestly believe you met every friend you have without doing this?
true. However there are people who just twitter, like 'I look a shower". WHO CARES?. If you wanna make friends, I say go out and meet people, particpate in real activities
Considering that they only took 2000 "tweets" out of the ginormous amount of them posted (as you said) would turn me away from seeing that review. Calling something "pointless babble" is truly ignorant. It's very subjective. For some people, I can see how Twitter is useful, but, in the same light, I hope others can understand that I don't care much for it. I feel that you did an excellent job with this. People nowadays will say anything to get attention--bash what's popular.
maybe its just my introverted ways that make me...not like Twitter,but really dont you think social interaction is better left in the real world,so that you get a better sense of the person your talking to?
and in my personal experience small talk leads to pointless gossip and drama.
once again im an introvert,so thats just my slightly askew opinion...
Thats exactly my point, tard. You know that no one gives a shit about what you do in the morning or what you just did, and yet you still go on twitter because you are so goddamn full of yourself.
The same can be said of YouTube...no one gives a shit about your opinion of Twitter on YouTube. So technically you have proven your own point. Congrats.
True, yet conversations do take place on Twitter through tweets. So not all of it is bullshit. Also its a good way to keep up with certain companies and entertainers that you are interested in. For example, I have a few webcomic artists that I follow so I can view their new comics, take a look at any sketches they put in tweets, and even keep up with convention dates/times when conventions roll around. Not all of Twitter is "pointless babble" but some of it can be rather dull.
Try being more positive! :) If people want to waste their time, let them. its not your life; its theirs, and, judging by your attitude, you don't twitter. Therefore, ignore it and your problems are solved!
I subscribed to your videos about a year ago because you made sense, still do, there has only been 1 video i did not like from you.. but besides that. 5 stars.
I use internet for work, as I am a designer for a living. But that dosen't mean, I waste time posting on blogs telling everbody when I am gonna goto the store and buy olives..
The internet is very useful for alot of things, but blogging, video diaries, and twitter messages about advertising ARE NOT. But you are absolutely correct, I could simply ignore it and go live my life. But unfortunately, you tend to end up on blogs while surfing for something online. it could be a recipe, manual, etc..
I am glad you are able to follow your band through twitter, and there ARE useful information on twitter. BUT most of the things posted on twitter ARE pointless babble. As far as socially interacting with people, I have no problem going up to someone and just talk. I do that all the time, with alot of success. I dont need smalltalk to get me going...
Do i sound annoyed, ignorant and fustrated? Yes...
as impressive as the technology and all the gagets are, they are splitting people up. The more we invent, the more seperated we become. Ever seen the movie WALL-E ? Hell, I can see it happen, all floating around in our own chair drinking food through a straw not noticing the world around us. This online world is the true killer, aleast in the long run.
... Problem is.. Only those who TRULY don't have a meaningful life would follow others online, in magazines, or in TV. Let's face it, those truly living their lives to the fullest are "out there" living it. And we.. sorry pathetic desperate boons, are sitting here reading / viewing / and discussing it.
It is indeed pointless.. my friend.
So is it all pointless babble? yes it is, everything in life is pointless.
ALL we know for sure is: We are dying from the day we are born!
I like a band, so I follow them on twitter. I get updates when they might come play in my state, that seems pointless by you. I will get updates on a new album, once again you think that is pointless. It is almost a way of preparing for something "real" as you would say. I find out they are comming to Aus, I get together with some friends and we see them. Thats what having a life is. Or I keep my "dignity" and never find out they are touring, nice one
Futhermore.. I would like to add, I think this "blogging" on youtube.. Is stupid.
It seems more like a desperate cry for attention, than actually trying to interact. Self promotion .- Who gives a flying F*** about what you have to say? Yea I could simply ignore the video I am watching, not comment, or not GOTO youtube at all... but the fact is, it is all around us. It is like a virus, a plauge to the internet. Everybody thinks they have a meaningful life, and they love to tell others about it.
Both to me are exactly.. pointless. If we have reached a point in life, where we have to small talk ONLINE, in order to interact as humans.. We are in serious trouble, and we ARE.
I don't like this social media world developing online, where we behind secure locations can vent our thoughts. If we have to smalltalk ( or socialize ) as you point out, it should be in real life. Not thinking oldschool, but thinking what I think is most beneficial for humans.
No actually small talk is importaint, you dont just run up to people and say "hey give me your number cus I wanna do something with you!", you get to know the person. It's called the future, instead of not talking at all due to distance issues, we walk online and even organise to do stuff and talk in person (kudos for reality?). How about you dont use the internet or a cell phone and try to live your life, we will see who is more social out of you and me :D
This is what happens when marketing idiots perceive social networking sites as a means to an end and not for what they simply are: for people to interact with each other and inform your SOCIAL NETWORK what you're doing. I find thinly-veiled marketing attempts that I see ALL THE TIME on Twitter more pointless than a mate selling me what he or she is up to.
So from what i hear from nate, is that twitter is for stalkers, perverts, pedofiles for the children who do use this, hmmm now, I'm not happy with that bird
hey blunty i just want to make i known that i'm a huge fan of your work and i also make vids and edit them, they vary from vlogs, to w/e! i post my work on my fb page because i keep most of it limited to my friends! you inspire my ideas and my work, and i would like to say THANKS! for having your own opinion on matters and being a great entertainer!:) i will post a video response, showing you one of my vlogs almost, nearly similar to this one :P
I used to think Twitter was useless, then Bioware started tweeting about their progress on Mass Effect 2. Now I tweet myself. I was wrong, and it is actually a pretty cool place just to get updates :)
Twitter is pretty good for buzz info. :< Like, up to the minute J-LIST, or updating your friends on zany links quickly and at their own leisure without having to actually talk to them just because you IMed them some stupid link. :<
I think you made a good point, the same people who bash things like twitter are the same ones who complain that ppl aren't communicating enough. What the hell do you want? Shut up.
There's a difference between "How are you?" & "I just ate some Cheerios." Small talk can be entertaining, but there's some shit that nobody gives a fuck about, like what you ate for breakfast yesterday.
And yes, that shit's just as annoying on MySpace & Facebook as it is on Twitter.
So once again, congrats Blunty, you've once again managed to be the best apologist for mainstream cultural Bullshit & the corporate elite behind it that there ever was.
Butt-crack, Texas!?! All right, Blunty, let's show Texas a bit more respect than THAT, mate! Although, come to think of it, there may very well be a Buttcrack, Texas (we have some oddly-named towns in this great State, to be sure.
mabe the company in texas dont have a desperate ignorance for social interaction, mabe they either:
1) hate twitter and want to kind of "discredit" it a little so less people go on twitter (would make sense if 98% of texas are on twitter 24/7)
or 2) the oposite of point 1 :)
either way these social networking sites are a load of bollocks, having used bebo, myspace and facebook in the past (and only because everyone i know used them) theres no way i am now using twitter, i dont use the others!
Twitter has many good uses such as immediate information exchange but the problem is most people are not that interesting and don't have much to say but still deem it necessary to tell what time they had a bowel movement. The nonsense of the "new toy" embrace will die off and the usefulness will remain.
twitter seems fucking pointless...just created an account on there just now and i was like...."wow why the fuck is this so popular?!" fuck twitter and whoever made it....
If the act of using twitter is twitting then is the post tense of twitting to twat? IE if Today I twit, yesteday I twitted, all week long I have twat?
guys wtf is this twitter thing? i know he discribes it but what do u do besides talk to each other like yim or aim or even xfire whats so special bout it
Twitter is not exactly pointless. It was crested as one thing, but use for another more 'Popular' use. Kind of like Viagara that was made first as heart medicine, but the side effect of a lasting erection spurred more interests. Twitter is VERY useful for journalist, developersand even student projects, though I have not come across one. I do not tweet nor twit. My life pauses ONLY for Xbox Live VOICEMAIL.
Marketing Firm, with an agenda? no fuckin way! lol, and i heard 90% of tweets come from 10%
I have no twitter, and I dont really do facebook or myspace, so I get where your point comes from, but to think all those sites dont lead to IRC or other p2p chat options to further discussion is a bit off. IM engines are not as popular, but they are still used for more personal reasons.
i disagree blunty, it isnt small-talk. Small-talk is used to initiate a conversation. Eventually the conversation will grow to be over more important things (possibly politics as you mentioned). Posting "im going to the market" or "im on the toilet" isnt small-talk because it's not an attempt to initiate a conversation or even converse with anyone at all. It's just a bunch of self-obsessed people that think a bunch of other self-obsessed people care that you're "eating a sandwich now."
I'd say 80% of what people say while on their cells is pointless babble too. How do I know? I can hear it all around me everywhere all the time for f's sake. So if twitter's traffic amounts to only 40% pointless babble that's not bad at all. I still find it shtoopid that you must twit crap like you are going to the convenience store, it reeks of desperation from trying to inject meaning in an otherwise meaningless, boring life. Yeah, I can see why some people would get mad.
Since pointless babble is what you call small talk in the real world, you'd think you'd be happy that Twitter is full of it. Be happy it's not all spam and marketers.
I think you're just jealous cause you didn't think of it first,
Twitter is shite, and you can call me a dinosaur for believing so...but honestly, the fact that people have become so obsessed with it is just fucking pathetic.
Blunty, by going into this and saying you use twitter is SHOWING YOUR OWN BIAS. Just because they went in with a category called 'pointless babble' doesn't mean that they are biased. And 20,000 messages are a lot.
I have seen Twitter, and going to your friend's house isn't worth typing up. TWITTER IS IN ITS ENTIRETY POINTLESS BABBLE. If it's important enough to write about, WHY NOT POST A VIDEO.
wow some people can me rly desprite when it comes to reseaching now a days.
i haven't been to twitter yet (must be one of the last 5 people) but if u would look at ALL the messages people have ever written on xfire (message program for gamers) u'll see that 60% is 'pointless babble'
twitter is a vanity tool for people who think that everyone's interested in whatever they do every second of their day. I don't feel the need to tell everyone I just took a shit after I ate a PBJ because nobody's interested in it. Not even I'm interested in it. But on Twitter there apparently are nobodies who think that their useless tweets mean something to someone. Which is sad. Most of tweets are pointless babble.
It makes sense that the main use of twitter is apparently not so much finding out what other people are doing, but **what's going on**. You can find out a lot if you study what people are talking about. Twitter isn't for me. However, youtube is my twitter ... through Youtube, I can keep track of these same things... without hearing who just feed their baby or who just had marmalade on toast for breakfast or who can't wait until Friday is over.
Still as brilliant as always! And I mean that in both the American and British definitions! I don't know what it means in New Zealand/Australia, though... Here's hoping it's something good!
To be honest, how can you make a conversation on Twitter about going to the store to get a carton of milk? I've never "tweeted" or whatever it's called. But it seems kind of a useless site, if nothing else it's a form of telling people what you're doing in your average, everyday life.
twitter is a bunch of "pointless babble" but thats what makes twitter alotta fun and was made for it! i have a twitter (@kevingebhardt) however i wish i would update it alot more.
Thank You! You hit it right on the head. Anyone can create a study and form it in such a way to validate their point of view no matter how stupid it may be.
i dont use twitter, but i tend to hate it because, i dont care what people are doing(i dont care if youre in the bathroom or sitting on the toilet) , plus people already do that on facebook.
I have a twitter, but I dont tweet. Just like I have a youtube, but I dont post videos. Twitter is good, for seeing what your favorite musicians/authors (people like that) are doing, If their working on new material, etc.
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whoo689 3 weeks ago
Anyone who just randomly said to strangers, "I'm going to the mall!" "I'm going to take a dump" and so on would seen as irritating prick who doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. But on Twitter, that's "normal", including to Blunty.
whoo689 3 weeks ago
Is it just me, or does it seem a little sadly IRONIC that a guy like Blunty would DEFEND pointless babble on Twitter as "normal human interaction"? Right... So telling a bunch of random folks around the world, "Hey, I'm going to the store." "I'm gonna eat some cake" and other crap no one gives a shit about is "normal"? That's online exhibitionist NONSENSE, and you know it, Nate. Let's face it, this/my generation has a really weird addiction to "laying it all out there", for some reason.
whoo689 3 weeks ago
Of course, a Twitfreak probably wouldn't ever understand my point. Tell me this....if Twitter didn't exist, would you be phoning or emailing all your friends and family all the stuff you post on Twitter?? Would you be calling your friends 50 times a day to tell them every little "small talk" detail of your day? OF COURSE NOT. CASE CLOSED.
DragonAurora 1 month ago
"So some publicity hungry so called "marketing research firm" in butt-crack Texas did some "research" that claims 40% of Twitter posts, Tweets, are "pointless babble".
Proving that they have a desperate ignorance of what social interaction IS." Sorry, but posting shit on Twitter (whether it's small talk or not) is nothing more than sending pointless babble out into cyberspace and hoping that a bunch of people will notice you. It's an ignorant, desperate attempt to get attention. Get it??
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hiruniuthpala 1 year ago
Sure, 'small-talk' IS pointless babble. I'm comfortable with saying that.
Now I wouldn't want to deny anyone their 'small-talk', but I'm sure that the internet bandwidth could be used for something far more useful. Like porn. If you have inanity to share - call someone to tell them. If it's not something that you'd call someone about - there's a reason - no-one wants to know; so spare your poor friends from your drivel!
Bloody oxygen thieves..
Thumbs down!
wheresmytinfoilhat 1 year ago
i think this video is pointless babble...
ahsonk 1 year ago
Pointless cuse no one cares about a fail study like this one
btw i like the word Pointless, Pointless Pointless Pointless :D
TrollsWatchingYouRay 1 year ago
I agree with what you're saying, I've made several friends through Twitter through small talk, it's much better than that for Facebook.
LeonSKennedy828 1 year ago
Twitter is almost or basically like Facebook, You can text what you're doing on your wall, you can Tweet what you're doing. You can have followers, or have friends. Twitter has no way of customizing pages like Myspace, so does Facebook. So my point is. If Twitter is pointless, then Facebook should be pointless and Myspace should be the only social network site. -_-, man people need to find facts about saying that Twitter sucks, they say its pointless but they don't know anything about it.
8JobForAMexican8 1 year ago
i agree below. i havent used twitter yet mostly because of the name. i literally had no idea what it was until about a month after i heard about it.
masterchief98908 1 year ago
twitter is stupid. it is for people who are self centered and just care about having other people pay attention to them
chestateegold 1 year ago
TWITTER IS GAY!!
brockinit22 2 years ago
To call it 'pointless babble' is only an oppinion. What may be seen as pointless to someone could be meaningful to another.
fiendfury 2 years ago
Blunty speaks the truth in this video.
LeonSKennedy828 2 years ago
Don't insult Texas you asshole, not all of us are as stupid ass people who can't run valid tests.
Sorry just had to say that.
HPATDH1 2 years ago
twitter is as twitter does.
I don't twitter, but hey, i'm not very interesting. I was once a chat room junkie though and used to use chat software all the time way back in the ICQ days.
I find facebook intrusive. I can't stand the idea of people being able to look you up and find out so much about you without you even knowing.
finnaddict 2 years ago
Yeah they are wrong...95% of tweets are pointless babble.Also your such a big idiot that you disabled comments on your profile and on your more stupid videos so ppl don't call you idiot , which still makes you idiot.
booze35 2 years ago
still rather be out there acutally talking to my friends than twittering about how im going somewhere, get out there and hang with your friends instead
LegendAmongRebels 2 years ago
TWITTER FUCKS!
jasohavents 2 years ago
Twitter has become the thing, but I hardly count it as social interaction. Social interaction is meeting with people one on one and have an actual conversation. However, I can understand the social network thing- hell, I have a Facebook and once a Myspace. But the thought of telling everyone what you are doing at all times is just narcissistic. No regular person is that important that they have to document every move in their life.
foxytreble942 2 years ago
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val04 2 years ago
In texas, if you ask them were Canada is, they respond: What state is Canada in?
TheRealPerson 2 years ago
Well They Are Texans Be Amazed They Can Breath or Eat
NDferro 2 years ago
Small talk is one thing, but when it comes down to it Twitter is pretty damn pointless. It has many good things about it, but pointless is when people that I work with will stand there and Twit about what their doing at work. I'm sorry, but what more do you need to put there other than, "I am getting paid to Twit people about what I am doing." It is purely pointless babble. Besides small talk as you stated should lead to larger things not a GPS of your friends locations and doings.
Requiem9001 2 years ago
Sometimes people just want to put in more than their 2 cents in.
BunkySpewer 2 years ago
Fair enough that that study is bullshit, but still Twitter is soo useless. If you wanna make small talk, get together with your friends. Not some random person. to be perfectly honest I find it suprising how far twitter has gotten, eventually people will realise how truely sstupid it is and twitter will fade away, like every other fad
retarthamster 2 years ago
Though it might be a "fad" to some. Those people you talk to such as friends and what not. You met randomally did you not? Small talk is how people start relationships. be it friends or what ever. Can you honestly believe you met every friend you have without doing this?
manwich2000 2 years ago
true. However there are people who just twitter, like 'I look a shower". WHO CARES?. If you wanna make friends, I say go out and meet people, particpate in real activities
retarthamster 2 years ago
@retarthamster Not all tweets are about that =/
LeonSKennedy828 1 year ago
Sorry for being so long-winded (unlike your oh-so-succinct self). What I really meant to say was grow up (or dont, but you look a fool).
nevillebartoss 2 years ago
Some people don't want to be the common adult.
BlankPoint69 2 years ago
Considering that they only took 2000 "tweets" out of the ginormous amount of them posted (as you said) would turn me away from seeing that review. Calling something "pointless babble" is truly ignorant. It's very subjective. For some people, I can see how Twitter is useful, but, in the same light, I hope others can understand that I don't care much for it. I feel that you did an excellent job with this. People nowadays will say anything to get attention--bash what's popular.
AsuraXMidnyteSun 2 years ago
Twitter is shit, period
RocRoc088 2 years ago
HAHA, you never fail to make me laugh blunty. Just the little things like 'I aint even gonan link ya! Ya bast****!" made me laugh. Keep it up.
Backofthekop 2 years ago
Good opinion and its true how would a conversation start without small talk. o yeh blunty nice top treky haha naa im mesin
FlowaMan 2 years ago
maybe its just my introverted ways that make me...not like Twitter,but really dont you think social interaction is better left in the real world,so that you get a better sense of the person your talking to?
and in my personal experience small talk leads to pointless gossip and drama.
once again im an introvert,so thats just my slightly askew opinion...
warpedwiselegoman 2 years ago
What an awful report. I think its more like 100% of the posts are useless BULLSHIT.
Doesn't anyone get it? No one gives a shit about anyone elses twitter, but they make their own "tweets" because they are so full of themselves.
No one. Gives. A. Shit. About. Your. Bullshit. Life.
Maxnned 2 years ago
no one cares about yours too ^ ^
finnsia 2 years ago
Thats exactly my point, tard. You know that no one gives a shit about what you do in the morning or what you just did, and yet you still go on twitter because you are so goddamn full of yourself.
Maxnned 2 years ago
The same can be said of YouTube...no one gives a shit about your opinion of Twitter on YouTube. So technically you have proven your own point. Congrats.
RogueSpear55 2 years ago
...Except i am directly talking to someone. On twitter, you make your own blog which you expect tons of people to read.
Im actually making an argument, not saying what bullshit I ate for breakfast
Maxnned 2 years ago
True, yet conversations do take place on Twitter through tweets. So not all of it is bullshit. Also its a good way to keep up with certain companies and entertainers that you are interested in. For example, I have a few webcomic artists that I follow so I can view their new comics, take a look at any sketches they put in tweets, and even keep up with convention dates/times when conventions roll around. Not all of Twitter is "pointless babble" but some of it can be rather dull.
RogueSpear55 2 years ago
Try being more positive! :) If people want to waste their time, let them. its not your life; its theirs, and, judging by your attitude, you don't twitter. Therefore, ignore it and your problems are solved!
XaveX13 2 years ago
@Maxnned Bullshit. I care about my friends' pages and they read mine, it's great for giving small updates and the like.
LeonSKennedy828 2 years ago
I suppose the firm wishes to continue the stereotype of the 'dumb' generation.
0503130s 2 years ago
Blunty your insight never fails to amaze me. As usual, you are right on point. Blunty for President in 2012.
carl6188 2 years ago
I TOTally agree with this guy^^! Once again you completely give me a different viewpoint. Blunty for prez!
brodzowski 2 years ago
Im not even gona link to ya ya basterds great one liner lol
neilss1 2 years ago
like your star trek shirt. but i agree that to many researches and studies are biased from the start.
Theogren 2 years ago
I subscribed to your videos about a year ago because you made sense, still do, there has only been 1 video i did not like from you.. but besides that. 5 stars.
zianclone234500 2 years ago
lol @ "some war torn country somewhere thats in a lot of trouble" ! Love it
BraDRoBBo 2 years ago
I use internet for work, as I am a designer for a living. But that dosen't mean, I waste time posting on blogs telling everbody when I am gonna goto the store and buy olives..
The internet is very useful for alot of things, but blogging, video diaries, and twitter messages about advertising ARE NOT. But you are absolutely correct, I could simply ignore it and go live my life. But unfortunately, you tend to end up on blogs while surfing for something online. it could be a recipe, manual, etc..
fawkthepassword 2 years ago
> Rayza09...
Drug testing? Stay on topic please.
I am glad you are able to follow your band through twitter, and there ARE useful information on twitter. BUT most of the things posted on twitter ARE pointless babble. As far as socially interacting with people, I have no problem going up to someone and just talk. I do that all the time, with alot of success. I dont need smalltalk to get me going...
fawkthepassword 2 years ago
It's not "pointless" to everyone, a detail from a friend of mine means something to ME, just because it doesn't to you doesn't mean it's pointless.
Some tweets are a bit pointless yes, like "I want some milk" for example
LeonSKennedy828 2 years ago
small talk online?
pointless
14mm2 2 years ago
You're very articulate and persuasive.
jules7890 2 years ago
It is pointless you dont socialy interact with ppl unless u are looking him or her in the eyes. Niceeeee shirt man
kormsd 2 years ago
but blunty its true!
you fucking chode!
KeijiMaeda86 2 years ago
Do i sound annoyed, ignorant and fustrated? Yes...
as impressive as the technology and all the gagets are, they are splitting people up. The more we invent, the more seperated we become. Ever seen the movie WALL-E ? Hell, I can see it happen, all floating around in our own chair drinking food through a straw not noticing the world around us. This online world is the true killer, aleast in the long run.
fawkthepassword 2 years ago
so...y r u online....writeing 4 paragrphs on the comments of someones video? thats kinda lame
Th33k 2 years ago
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fawkthepassword 2 years ago
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fawkthepassword 2 years ago
... Problem is.. Only those who TRULY don't have a meaningful life would follow others online, in magazines, or in TV. Let's face it, those truly living their lives to the fullest are "out there" living it. And we.. sorry pathetic desperate boons, are sitting here reading / viewing / and discussing it.
It is indeed pointless.. my friend.
So is it all pointless babble? yes it is, everything in life is pointless.
ALL we know for sure is: We are dying from the day we are born!
fawkthepassword 2 years ago
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Have you been drug tested recently?
I like a band, so I follow them on twitter. I get updates when they might come play in my state, that seems pointless by you. I will get updates on a new album, once again you think that is pointless. It is almost a way of preparing for something "real" as you would say. I find out they are comming to Aus, I get together with some friends and we see them. Thats what having a life is. Or I keep my "dignity" and never find out they are touring, nice one
Rayza09 2 years ago
Futhermore.. I would like to add, I think this "blogging" on youtube.. Is stupid.
It seems more like a desperate cry for attention, than actually trying to interact. Self promotion .- Who gives a flying F*** about what you have to say? Yea I could simply ignore the video I am watching, not comment, or not GOTO youtube at all... but the fact is, it is all around us. It is like a virus, a plauge to the internet. Everybody thinks they have a meaningful life, and they love to tell others about it.
fawkthepassword 2 years ago
Pointless babble or "small talk".
Both to me are exactly.. pointless. If we have reached a point in life, where we have to small talk ONLINE, in order to interact as humans.. We are in serious trouble, and we ARE.
I don't like this social media world developing online, where we behind secure locations can vent our thoughts. If we have to smalltalk ( or socialize ) as you point out, it should be in real life. Not thinking oldschool, but thinking what I think is most beneficial for humans.
fawkthepassword 2 years ago
No actually small talk is importaint, you dont just run up to people and say "hey give me your number cus I wanna do something with you!", you get to know the person. It's called the future, instead of not talking at all due to distance issues, we walk online and even organise to do stuff and talk in person (kudos for reality?). How about you dont use the internet or a cell phone and try to live your life, we will see who is more social out of you and me :D
Rayza09 2 years ago
3:35
"ig-in-er-ance"
i love you blunty
fortunne 2 years ago
dude !
ScottMyster15 2 years ago
This is what happens when marketing idiots perceive social networking sites as a means to an end and not for what they simply are: for people to interact with each other and inform your SOCIAL NETWORK what you're doing. I find thinly-veiled marketing attempts that I see ALL THE TIME on Twitter more pointless than a mate selling me what he or she is up to.
Melaisis 2 years ago
Always good meaningful rant blunty!
what does STFU mean??
DrWhoBadWolf 2 years ago
Shut the fuck up!
Melaisis 2 years ago
Live Long and Prosper !
awser 2 years ago
lol, i like how the gay dating ad comes up through your video :)
Obscene3D 2 years ago
Wy not ignore that study? Is it pointless babble to babble about some stupid study? :-)
pingpongme 2 years ago
So from what i hear from nate, is that twitter is for stalkers, perverts, pedofiles for the children who do use this, hmmm now, I'm not happy with that bird
Stiksteve 2 years ago
hey blunty i just want to make i known that i'm a huge fan of your work and i also make vids and edit them, they vary from vlogs, to w/e! i post my work on my fb page because i keep most of it limited to my friends! you inspire my ideas and my work, and i would like to say THANKS! for having your own opinion on matters and being a great entertainer!:) i will post a video response, showing you one of my vlogs almost, nearly similar to this one :P
kgnuy 2 years ago
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sarahjintexas 2 years ago
more then that since other parts of the lake might be differnt
CONKER17 2 years ago
twitter is shit
kaiokenx145 2 years ago
they shud call it twatter
jamie191294 2 years ago
i mainly use twitter for game updates
eng2k7 2 years ago
Fuck Twitter haters!
Blunty3000-God!
RDKF13 2 years ago
I used to think Twitter was useless, then Bioware started tweeting about their progress on Mass Effect 2. Now I tweet myself. I was wrong, and it is actually a pretty cool place just to get updates :)
Destenoth 2 years ago
Twitter is pretty good for buzz info. :< Like, up to the minute J-LIST, or updating your friends on zany links quickly and at their own leisure without having to actually talk to them just because you IMed them some stupid link. :<
syrupneko 2 years ago
I think you made a good point, the same people who bash things like twitter are the same ones who complain that ppl aren't communicating enough. What the hell do you want? Shut up.
Canyadigit2 2 years ago
I like boys now.
Heckytorr 2 years ago
I hate it when people say that stuff about twitter
LinkinParkLivEshow 2 years ago
There's a difference between "How are you?" & "I just ate some Cheerios." Small talk can be entertaining, but there's some shit that nobody gives a fuck about, like what you ate for breakfast yesterday.
And yes, that shit's just as annoying on MySpace & Facebook as it is on Twitter.
So once again, congrats Blunty, you've once again managed to be the best apologist for mainstream cultural Bullshit & the corporate elite behind it that there ever was.
DixyHair 2 years ago
Argh I hate Twitter, in fact I hate social networking.
Sites like Facebook can kiss my arse.
Petchhyy 2 years ago
Great point man, small talk is so essential for social interaction! I want that shirt!
CygnusX1981 2 years ago
Butt-crack, Texas!?! All right, Blunty, let's show Texas a bit more respect than THAT, mate! Although, come to think of it, there may very well be a Buttcrack, Texas (we have some oddly-named towns in this great State, to be sure.
MCP2012 2 years ago
great state? texas sucks.
pandaguy666 2 years ago
mabe the company in texas dont have a desperate ignorance for social interaction, mabe they either:
1) hate twitter and want to kind of "discredit" it a little so less people go on twitter (would make sense if 98% of texas are on twitter 24/7)
or 2) the oposite of point 1 :)
either way these social networking sites are a load of bollocks, having used bebo, myspace and facebook in the past (and only because everyone i know used them) theres no way i am now using twitter, i dont use the others!
mattfuzzy 2 years ago
and i am the one responsible for that 40%
THEKINGBETWEEN 2 years ago
Twitter has many good uses such as immediate information exchange but the problem is most people are not that interesting and don't have much to say but still deem it necessary to tell what time they had a bowel movement. The nonsense of the "new toy" embrace will die off and the usefulness will remain.
OGdbleE 2 years ago
Why would they release the report on twitter for it then to be considered itself as pointless babble.
crabshack 2 years ago
twitter seems fucking pointless...just created an account on there just now and i was like...."wow why the fuck is this so popular?!" fuck twitter and whoever made it....
TearsOfWar1 2 years ago
If the act of using twitter is twitting then is the post tense of twitting to twat? IE if Today I twit, yesteday I twitted, all week long I have twat?
pyromaster55 2 years ago
lolzer
AbsoluteChaos758 2 years ago
The act of using twitter is "tweeting". The bird as a logo is a clue there.
OlderThanYears 2 years ago
No, I think twiting covers it, as the site is mostly full of twits, just like any other social networking site.
pjf222 2 years ago
I had no idea that a bird was the logo, I have never been on twitter. I have no interest in twitter. It was a joke.
pyromaster55 2 years ago
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pyromaster55 2 years ago
guys wtf is this twitter thing? i know he discribes it but what do u do besides talk to each other like yim or aim or even xfire whats so special bout it
airsoft2 2 years ago
Twitter is not exactly pointless. It was crested as one thing, but use for another more 'Popular' use. Kind of like Viagara that was made first as heart medicine, but the side effect of a lasting erection spurred more interests. Twitter is VERY useful for journalist, developersand even student projects, though I have not come across one. I do not tweet nor twit. My life pauses ONLY for Xbox Live VOICEMAIL.
warrengonline 2 years ago
around 2:38, you hit it right on the head, They released the report to get attention.
Agreed.
map232 2 years ago
Texas statistician at their best. The study was pointless babble
isdonisgood 2 years ago
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dadaa1234567 2 years ago
This IS pointless babble you muggy fucking cunt
shmukk 2 years ago
white hair
GunzOfJustice 2 years ago
lol blunty's gettin old...
BringerOfD 2 years ago
considering he is 30
BrickUnit 2 years ago
Marketing Firm, with an agenda? no fuckin way! lol, and i heard 90% of tweets come from 10%
I have no twitter, and I dont really do facebook or myspace, so I get where your point comes from, but to think all those sites dont lead to IRC or other p2p chat options to further discussion is a bit off. IM engines are not as popular, but they are still used for more personal reasons.
paindrain 2 years ago
utter wubbish indeed! the stephen fry fella uses twitter and he's like the smartest person in the...EVER! so there! texas...company...
dreamerthing 2 years ago
i disagree blunty, it isnt small-talk. Small-talk is used to initiate a conversation. Eventually the conversation will grow to be over more important things (possibly politics as you mentioned). Posting "im going to the market" or "im on the toilet" isnt small-talk because it's not an attempt to initiate a conversation or even converse with anyone at all. It's just a bunch of self-obsessed people that think a bunch of other self-obsessed people care that you're "eating a sandwich now."
ThirtyYearsWar 2 years ago
I have had MANY "proper" conversations initiated from small-talk/blabber on twitter. your ASSUMPTION is wrong.
Blunty3000 2 years ago
I'd say 80% of what people say while on their cells is pointless babble too. How do I know? I can hear it all around me everywhere all the time for f's sake. So if twitter's traffic amounts to only 40% pointless babble that's not bad at all. I still find it shtoopid that you must twit crap like you are going to the convenience store, it reeks of desperation from trying to inject meaning in an otherwise meaningless, boring life. Yeah, I can see why some people would get mad.
marconospam 2 years ago
Yeah total bullshit. I would peg it at closer to 80%
@blunty: eating a sandwich now
@blunty: taking a shit now
@blunty: poop coming out now
fuck twitter.
neodorian 2 years ago
opinionated jackass lol
you are too funny
Madmaz23 2 years ago
Blunty my man, you've done it again!
vanherrmann 2 years ago
Since pointless babble is what you call small talk in the real world, you'd think you'd be happy that Twitter is full of it. Be happy it's not all spam and marketers.
I think you're just jealous cause you didn't think of it first,
sarahjintexas 2 years ago
did you understand a word of what he said?
GabesSC 2 years ago
Twitter is shite, and you can call me a dinosaur for believing so...but honestly, the fact that people have become so obsessed with it is just fucking pathetic.
Falcon1956 2 years ago
Agreed Blunty
Stupidity 1, Intelligence 0.
princeboy5 2 years ago
amen blunty. u made some hella good points
chinesecheeunit 2 years ago
Also, by insulting the people who did the study repeatedly, you're being a little rude. They aren't idiots just because you say they are.
HHBones 2 years ago
Blunty, by going into this and saying you use twitter is SHOWING YOUR OWN BIAS. Just because they went in with a category called 'pointless babble' doesn't mean that they are biased. And 20,000 messages are a lot.
I have seen Twitter, and going to your friend's house isn't worth typing up. TWITTER IS IN ITS ENTIRETY POINTLESS BABBLE. If it's important enough to write about, WHY NOT POST A VIDEO.
HHBones 2 years ago
omg, it's 2,000 tweets not 20,000... And he never said he was an impartial person... He's giving his opinion on the matter...
GabesSC 2 years ago
Aren't all tweets pointless babble?
Oxenpar 2 years ago
I love you videos keep up the good woFrk plAeas sGir. LOL
djfuzzems 2 years ago
twitter is not as big you think, I think some tweeting is definetly small talk. but im sure 10 percent is pointless.
hibbydude23 2 years ago
If you are a person that twitters, dose that mean if you are alone your just a twit ?
carguyinok 2 years ago
I wonder if Vid Responses are working. I have put up one to this one and another one, but nothing accepted.
Blunty, let me know if I need to resubmit it. I took it just another step father.
Keep on YouTubin!!
kiddsock 2 years ago
word
ShirayuriSky 2 years ago
wow some people can me rly desprite when it comes to reseaching now a days.
i haven't been to twitter yet (must be one of the last 5 people) but if u would look at ALL the messages people have ever written on xfire (message program for gamers) u'll see that 60% is 'pointless babble'
nhahtrebor91 2 years ago
twitter is a vanity tool for people who think that everyone's interested in whatever they do every second of their day. I don't feel the need to tell everyone I just took a shit after I ate a PBJ because nobody's interested in it. Not even I'm interested in it. But on Twitter there apparently are nobodies who think that their useless tweets mean something to someone. Which is sad. Most of tweets are pointless babble.
goodandawesome 2 years ago
"I'm scratching my ass".
Bow to the importance of my tweet...
It IS pointless babble you internet junkie.You do "small talk" in REAL LIFE.Get one, go outside, see the green trees and blue sky etc.
And now to be considered racist too, you stuuuupid american -_-
gleelash 2 years ago
First of all, "American" isn't a race. Second, Blunty's Australian.
death3111 2 years ago
American is a race
notserp427 2 years ago
you're about half a step short of a half-wit, aren't you? it's a nationality.
death3111 2 years ago
i hope the american thing wasnt for blunty... hes australian you unit...
UnluckyMonk 2 years ago
shut the fuck the what up?
codediporpal 2 years ago
Star Trek.
Tainnavaa 2 years ago
very gd point u made
btw have u ever met Yahtzee frm the escapist? u both live in australia sooo :S just askin
MaXimumN1nja182 2 years ago
Hehe. Those two put together would be too much awesomeness. Hooray for epicness! Eggehbleh!
KlajjDarquen 2 years ago
lol yeah
MaXimumN1nja182 2 years ago
lol australias a big place
monkeyo0s 2 years ago
It makes sense that the main use of twitter is apparently not so much finding out what other people are doing, but **what's going on**. You can find out a lot if you study what people are talking about. Twitter isn't for me. However, youtube is my twitter ... through Youtube, I can keep track of these same things... without hearing who just feed their baby or who just had marmalade on toast for breakfast or who can't wait until Friday is over.
Silkspine 2 years ago
Still as brilliant as always! And I mean that in both the American and British definitions! I don't know what it means in New Zealand/Australia, though... Here's hoping it's something good!
SungHero 2 years ago
To be honest, how can you make a conversation on Twitter about going to the store to get a carton of milk? I've never "tweeted" or whatever it's called. But it seems kind of a useless site, if nothing else it's a form of telling people what you're doing in your average, everyday life.
Fallrider 2 years ago
Hey, Blunty.
I love your videos.
I subscribed after your first few videos.
Do you feed off the hatred you recieve?
Because I love it!
You should never stop your videos.
All the people who hate on your videos just wish they could be you.
But that's my opinion.
So meh.
[:
Freewolf18 2 years ago
Going out to get a carton of milk
Ziminiar 2 years ago
erm it is pointless babble
althought it depends on your
definition OF pointless babble
CommercialTalk 2 years ago
I still think writing I'm taking a crap on Twitter is, as that report said, "Pointless babble."
OwnerGovna 2 years ago
twitter is just stalking on the internet tbh lol
bigMooney06 2 years ago
seriously twitter is for losers with no life
RueMyView 2 years ago
Hey why dont you just hate on everyone while yor at it
Galkagrad 2 years ago
Small talk is boring.
pearlsea 2 years ago
anyone ever tell you you kinda look like robert Downey Jr?
TeamFortressKilla 2 years ago
Better question--is Blunty sick of being told he looks like Robert Downey Jr?
..I still say he looks more like Kevin Smith, tho'. <<
otakuploader 2 years ago
twitter is a bunch of "pointless babble" but thats what makes twitter alotta fun and was made for it! i have a twitter (@kevingebhardt) however i wish i would update it alot more.
ExpeditionPictures 2 years ago
Thank You! You hit it right on the head. Anyone can create a study and form it in such a way to validate their point of view no matter how stupid it may be.
duleym 2 years ago
texas ussless survey you have been blunted
pburgess1 2 years ago
i dont use twitter, but i tend to hate it because, i dont care what people are doing(i dont care if youre in the bathroom or sitting on the toilet) , plus people already do that on facebook.
silentsniperrr 2 years ago
Im from texas and I apologize on their behalf.
davdi92 2 years ago
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SundayKilgannon 2 years ago
I would argue that nearly 100% of twitter post are pointless babble...
I've always thought twitter was retarted.
SlightlyNotorious 2 years ago
I have a twitter, but I dont tweet. Just like I have a youtube, but I dont post videos. Twitter is good, for seeing what your favorite musicians/authors (people like that) are doing, If their working on new material, etc.
SundayKilgannon 2 years ago
ya its retarded
8narutoshodowclones 2 years ago
MN people are very well knewn for small talk. So if you like small talk go to MN,USA. Ah Blunty, love your shirt. Star Trek and where can I get one?
38rico 2 years ago