Why Teens Don't Use Twitter

i like twitter, it makes me feel important. if im eating cornflakes at 2am on a thursday night, i want other people to know about it dammit!!

I agree with SG that Twitter, any other type of information medium, is useful to those with particular needs. If there are enough of those poeple, the medium will survive. If not, it won't. I don't use it and never have...but I don't see any reason to spend even 5 minutes of my life urging its demise. That issue will take care of itself -- unlike cleaning the garage, which is where I will be sleeping next week if I don't get out there as I promised I would...

I like how it acknowledges the security options on twitter..

I think twitter is pretty much useless because Facebook can do pretty much the same thing. I have friends who update their status constantly like it's twitter. Good thing about facebook though is that you can comment on their status/links/videos and actually be able to connect/converse with them unlike twitter.

I'm usually too busy doing what im doing to tweet it on the internet.

and i think if your living to tweet, then you're not paying attention, and you're not really living.

but then again, in some parts of the world, a person having the chance to say something on the internet in 140 words or less can bring about the most significant changes.

I guess it's is like any communication platform, its how you use it.

I dont know why Current hasnt looked at developing their own take on status updates. Current is all about right now right? Nothing closer to now than status updates.

but rather than "what are you doing right now?" the premise should be "what do you have to say?"

Forums and blogs like this site are much better. It's a two, three, fourway conversation etc. As far as I know you cannot reply to tweets directly on the page can you? I like how current is set up, anyways...

"and why Twitter isn’t the hot topic in high school halls."

Because schools out (in the US anyway).

I'll pass this to my facebook and see what their response is. The only reason I don't use it is because I don't have an iPhone and I didn't get the internet plan with my phone.

:/ Because its stupid,moronic,and annoying unless it has something of importance which is probably like 5% of the tweets.

I can't be limited to 140 word or characters....that's why I don't use it I have far too much to say. I would be constantly tweeting and I am pretty sure no one needs to hear me talk that much.

Agreed with @sgwhites... it all depends on how you use Twitter, and especially who you follow.

Do I want to know what my Twitter friends are doing every second of the day? No. But the people I follow don't tweet that kind of info anyway. If they did, I'd unfollow them because they'd be ruining my experience (this has happened before, and unfollowing them solved everything).

I follow people that I know and care about to keep up with them and get a chuckle here and there when they want to share an amusing anecdote, etc. They're my friends, so I'm into it. I follow a handful people that I don't know because they've proven to consistently post content I find useful in some way. I follow a handful of people who I just think are awesome (@trent_reznor, for example), and Twitter allows me a window into their lives I can't find anywhere else. Twitter is a tool that is at once amusing, helpful, and full of cool info, and can be constantly tweaked to filter out anything you don't like.

Anyway, some people aren't going to like Twitter, and that's fine. But to say it's just a service for arrogant people who want to talk about what they are doing every second of the day is just not accurate. Just unfollow those people and you'll never have to think about them again!

Ok, I feel better now.

I think, like anything else, whether you like Twitter or not depends a lot on your how you use it, if other people you know use it, and your daily routine.

I wouldn't have used Twitter much as a teen; I wasn't online as much, cell phones didn't have internet, and I saw my friends every day.

Now, I sit in front of a computer all day anyway, which makes checking Twitter easier, and I like to use it to keep up with my friends because we're spread out through different time zones which makes phone calls difficult.

Plus--Twitter isn't really to be taken literally. Yes, sometimes it IS interesting to see what people are doing right then, but most people I know use it to have conversations, share links and pictures, and that sort of thing.

If you're not a fan, that's fine, but why put in all the effort to bash something just because it's not your cup of tea? I don't get it.

Twitter is just too simple. I'd log in for a few minutes each day, usually less. Often times, I wouldn't log in for a whole week and none of the people I was following had updated. It was boring. Trending topics were semi-interesting, but usually just served as reminders that I wouldn't be seeing the new crappy comedy that was out and I wouldn't be watching the sports game that was on that night.

The reason for me has nothing to do with security, or cost. For me, the reason I don't use twitter is that it seems like a stupid, and conceded thing to do. I don't know anybody that would give a rat's ass about what I'm doing every single moment of every day, and to be honest, if a such a person exists, I don't think I would like them.

I'm just waiting for the singularity...

Twitter sux bring in the FAIL WHALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like twitter, but only in theory. I won't use it myself.

....Simply because it needs to destroyed, and other than that, its uses are unclear.....

honestly, i don't use twitter because its basically the same thing as updating your status on myspace or facebook. why use another website to post what you are up to when you could use the same websites you usually do and just change your status?