Metasocial

May 1, 2009 5:48 AM

Didn't there used to be a webpage that showed you all the Mefites' social-networking-website accounts that we have listed in their profiles? Or something?

Does this still exist? If so, where is it? Sorry to be lame, but I've tried searching around, to no avail.

posted by Jaltcoh to MetaFilter-related at 5:48 AM (63 comments total)

Voila.

I kept losing it too, so I finally just stuck it in my profile.
posted by rtha at 5:52 AM on May 1 [10 favorites]

Thank you, rtha, that is precisely what I want. I would mark you as "best answer" if there were "best answers" in MetaTalk.
posted by Jaltcoh at 5:54 AM on May 1

I think the traditional way to mark a best answer in meTa is to send the user bacon, but I think I'm remember that you're a vegetarian, in which case a giant donut, some cilantro, or a plate of beans can be substituted.
posted by rtha at 6:15 AM on May 1

"I'm remember" is no grammatacly coorect ?
posted by Meatbomb at 7:02 AM on May 1

Well, at least rtha doesn't go around pointing out people's slight errors.
posted by Kattullus at 7:06 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]

Sorry, Meatbomb, that was a lot more intemperate than you deserved. My apologies.
posted by Kattullus at 7:10 AM on May 1

Man there used to be a lot of things.
posted by Sailormom at 7:16 AM on May 1

I'd like to put in a second vote in favor of giant donuts. :)
posted by zarq at 7:42 AM on May 1

but I think I'm remember that you're a vegetarian,

Good point!

in which case a giant donut, some cilantro, or a plate of beans can be substituted.

Here, have an apple instead.
posted by Jaltcoh at 7:51 AM on May 1

I'd like to put in a vote for less gift buying and more heated accusations and criticism.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:52 AM on May 1 [3 favorites]

Let's start with that fucking Kattallus.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:53 AM on May 1

I too got tired of forgetting where neat little one-off pages were on MeFi, and so began the Shadowy Back Alleys page on the Wiki.
posted by carsonb at 8:14 AM on May 1 [2 favorites]

Lack of grammarosity is a consequence of commenting when I am not yet fully caffeinated. I apologize deeply to the community here. I'm glad cortex is busy in New York, and jessamyn is off somewhere too, isn't she? I wouldn't want to get the banhammer dropped on me. I hope the mods will be merciful when they see my error.
posted by rtha at 8:22 AM on May 1

There's a place near my house that has bacon donuts. They are pure evil deliciousness. They are not giant donuts, however.
posted by rtha at 8:24 AM on May 1

Let's start with that fucking Kattallus

Careful. He's a Viking.
posted by Sailormom at 8:36 AM on May 1

Metaphorically speaking.
posted by Kattullus at 8:45 AM on May 1

Careful. He's a Viking.

Is he a Ghostbuster, too?
posted by inigo2 at 8:46 AM on May 1

jessamyn is off somewhere too, isn't she?

Geez, I'm standing right here!
posted by jessamyn at 8:46 AM on May 1

awkward.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:00 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]

*offers jessamyn a Donut of Appeasement*

Hi jess!
posted by rtha at 9:08 AM on May 1

I'd like to put in a vote for less gift buying and more heated accusations and criticism.

That sounds like something a terrorist would say! Why do you hate Metafilter and want to destroy it, Meatbomb?
posted by dersins at 9:19 AM on May 1

I'm remember the last time Meatbomb terrorized Metafilter. :(
posted by mullacc at 9:32 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]

Oh, and thanks for the apple, Jaltcoh.
posted by rtha at 9:41 AM on May 1

mullacc, I think you are purposefully saying "I'm remember" just to taunt me.
posted by Meatbomb at 9:58 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]

hi, I'm actually between highways atm (yay Guilford rest stop and free VT wifi!) but donuts are good road food. Thanks!
posted by jessamyn at 10:08 AM on May 1

You should come back and sleep on our couch, jess. Yorvit was saying just this morning that he misses you.
posted by rtha at 10:19 AM on May 1

There's a place near my house that has bacon donuts.

Wow. I never met an actual resident of heaven before. Nice.
posted by shiu mai baby at 10:20 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]

Yeah, San Francisco's pretty great.
posted by rtha at 10:27 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]

I forgot: Bacon donuts here.
posted by rtha at 10:29 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]

Also here, fyi. With the added bonus of not being in San Francisco!

I kid, of course. San Francisco's great. It's just that it's no Portland, is all.
posted by dersins at 10:37 AM on May 1

I like that even though MeFi loves to get its hate on for Twitter, it's the second-most populous item on that list with 1427 to Flickr's 1754.
posted by subbes at 11:10 AM on May 1

If other MeFites are like me, they created their Twitter account and then couldn't figure out why or what the point was.
posted by octothorpe at 11:19 AM on May 1

in which case a giant donut, some cilantro, or a plate of beans can be substituted.

Just to be safe, I go with all three.

They travel better if you blend them together and pack them in Tupperware.
posted by koeselitz at 11:37 AM on May 1

Voodoo doughnuts in Portland - the shop that made cortex famous.
posted by Cranberry at 11:51 AM on May 1

ocial swet-norking
posted by blue_beetle at 11:53 AM on May 1

If other MeFites are like me, they created their Twitter account and then couldn't figure out why or what the point was.

I am like you in that respect. In fact, that's why I posted this question -- I thought maybe some Twittering Mefites could bring meaning and purpose to my humdrum Twitter existence.
posted by Jaltcoh at 11:54 AM on May 1

subbes: "I like that even though MeFi loves to get its hate on for Twitter, it's the second-most populous item on that list with 1427 to Flickr's 1754."

Around here, I think we're the silent majority. People who like Twitter prefer to just use it, and leave the OMFGing to the uncomprehending curmudgeonly malcontents. (Or, at least, I do that when I can manage to keep my face out of anti-Twitter trollbait.)
posted by Plutor at 12:37 PM on May 1

Around here, I think we're the silent majority.

1,400 people is a majority of Mefites? I don't think so.
posted by Jaltcoh at 12:40 PM on May 1

Okay, plurality.
posted by Plutor at 12:43 PM on May 1

All three admins (plus pb) Twitter regularly. If Twitter is wrong, I don't want to be right.
posted by Plutor at 12:48 PM on May 1

If you're measuring by mass, we're the majority.

HURF DURF TWITTER POSTERS
posted by subbes at 12:50 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]

I have tweeted for the first time in a couple of months. It was exciting.
posted by rtha at 1:02 PM on May 1

It's not polite to tweet in mixed company.
posted by blue_beetle at 1:14 PM on May 1

Okay, plurality.

But you also need to count people like me: I have a Twitter account, and it's listed in my profile, but I still hate Twitter.
posted by Jaltcoh at 1:39 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]

What about people like me who can't remember whether they ever signed up for twitter or not, and don't particularly give a flying fuck about it either way? Where's our representation, dammit?
posted by dersins at 1:44 PM on May 1

Ask Soybomb.
posted by y2karl at 2:01 PM on May 1

Where's our representation, dammit?

On facebook.

Which I also haven't updated in ages.
posted by rtha at 2:14 PM on May 1

I'm facebook-free, though.
posted by dersins at 2:17 PM on May 1

The temperature at this conference re: twitter seems to be one of being tired of listening to people who are new at being annoyed at twitter, with a dose of people who are new at being annoyed at twitter and are excited to be allegedly-timidly admitting that annoyance and seeking validation.

Makes me miss mefi.
posted by cortex at 2:18 PM on May 1

At the conference I just came from there were basically people on Twitter who were like "yeah it's good for some things" and people who read about it in the New York Times who seemed to hate it already even though they never used it and mostly hadn't even seen it.
posted by jessamyn at 2:30 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]

Has anyone seen jessamyn around lately?
posted by dg at 2:43 PM on May 1

Who?
posted by rtha at 2:45 PM on May 1

Jaltcoh: "But you also need to count people like me: I have a Twitter account, and it's listed in my profile, but I still hate Twitter."

Like a Republican who voted for Hillary, your vote still counts.
posted by Plutor at 3:09 PM on May 1

rtha: I forgot: Bacon donuts here.

Favorited for reference, & wishing I could favorite it another few times for awesomeness.

I told myself I wouldn't cry...
posted by Pronoiac at 3:53 PM on May 1

A word of warning: they do not have bacon donuts every day. I have never had a donut that is less than awesome from them, but if you have your heart set on a bacon donut, the chocolate-rosemary-almond may not do it for you.
posted by rtha at 4:21 PM on May 1

[...] being tired of listening to people who are new at being annoyed at twitter [...]

I've heard so much of this meta-annoyance recently that it's really starting to bother me.
posted by FishBike at 4:22 PM on May 1

Meatbomb: Not taunting. Encouraging.
posted by mullacc at 6:00 PM on May 1

I'm tired of the backlash against the backlash.
posted by Pronoiac at 10:11 PM on May 1

Like a Republican who voted for Hillary, your vote still counts.

Actually, that goes the other way. Republicans who vote for Hillary don't actually represent Hillary supporters. (That was the fallacy of her frequent boasts that she had "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" -- many of those 18 million were Republicans voting against Barack Obama, which should hardly be a source of inspiration for Democrats!)
posted by Jaltcoh at 6:16 AM on May 2

Forgive me in advance if I start adding all of my "contacts" on Facebook. I'm on some sort of bizarre personal quest to have everyone I've ever "known" as a contact just in case. In case of what, I'm still not sure.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 7:55 AM on May 2

*secret handshakes grapefruitmoon*

I expected this post to unleash a wave of Twitter adds, since I'm so alphabetically privileged in the list and such, but haven't seen any so far.

I promise I'm a fun twitterer. I adore being followed, it's like being stalked but less law-enforcement intensive!

Does anybody know of a plugin or a site which can pick a random tweet from a user's twitterstream? I'd love to use that.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:17 AM on May 2

The temperature at this conference re: twitter seems to be one of being tired of listening to people who are new at being annoyed at twitter, with a dose of people who are new at being annoyed at twitter and are excited to be allegedly-timidly admitting that annoyance and seeking validation.

At the conference I just came from there were basically people on Twitter who were like "yeah it's good for some things" and people who read about it in the New York Times who seemed to hate it already even though they never used it and mostly hadn't even seen it.

In my world, people divide into two camps -- those who recognize all the efforts that have been made to convince them how useful Twitter is and are therefore too afraid or polite to admit they still don't see its use, and those who are annoyed at the continuing efforts to convince them of how useful it is when they're already so "convinced."

So, you're saying the next phases to expect are timid annoyance, then outright backlash, then annoyance at the backlash? I can't wait.
posted by salvia at 11:56 PM on May 2

(poking head into thread curiously)

....Hey, there are more Mefites on Paperback swap!

(runs off to update her own profile)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:23 AM on May 3