Celtics, Cavs, Twitter

I wasn’t going to write anything today, but then I saw the Celtics lost again lasterday, and I got all writerly.

I’m not an advanced enough math scholar to figure it out, but with CLE now equal in the loss column, the teams could be tied up record-wise when January 9 rolls around.

Check out this comment on Celticsblog.

yep. exactly. if we end up nose diving and ending up going down in round 1 or 2 no one should be shocked

kg can’t take over. pp is up for it but is only one man. ray’s rain man routine is a problematic in streaks(ask the bucks and sonics)and we have NO GROWN UP MAN ON THE BENCH.

not looking good.please danny come through

Man, a couple losses back-to-back on the Western trip and the sky is falling, huh?

Relax, BOS – they probably just borrowed LeBron’s DVD collection, and spent all day watching the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

Really what I want to talk about is Twitter, though. It completely baffles me, as you’ll note if you’ve looked at my Twitter feed.

By my determination, there are several possible uses for Twitter. I’ve noted whether this is something I want or need in my life.

1) To let everyone who follows you know what you’re doing on a regular basis throughout the day.

I don’t want this at all.

2) To note what other people are doing on a regular basis throughout their day.

Don’t take it personally, but unless you’re Superman or my girlfriend or something, I don’t really need to know. It seems like a massive waste of time.

3) To pseudo-spam links to your blog/website/endeavors.

This is something that’ll come in handy, but it feels kinda dirty or wrong or cheap.

4) To just say funny things and entertain.

I can do this, but I don’t really want to. If I have something really good, it goes in the file to use in a script, or gets put on here.

Sure, I have lots of little throw-away observations and things throughout the day, but so does everyone, and most of them are because of where I am and what I’m seeing. I think that gets lost in the transition to Twitter.

I also don’t want to feel the need to have to update the thing. If I do something, I like to do it all-out and do it right.

This is why WSM? took forever, it’s why YAYsports! fell apart, and it’s why I explicitly stated upon starting this blog, that I’d only write something when I felt like it. Sure, that happens to be every day usually, but you get my point.

5) To have important conversations with other people in public.

I don’t want this.

So, looking over the list, the only reason I could want to be on Twitter is to spam my stuff, which I don’t feel right about.

Maybe I’m missing something – can I get a rundown/analysis from Twitter users?