I took a while but STC has a presence on all three major social media channels now.  Most things I post there I generally also post to these forums, but still your likes, follows, retweets and shares would be very much appreciated!

Twitter
https://twitter.com/stcsoundtracks

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNMfA7 … 9mG-wyYHNg

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Soundtra … 9992437160

Browsing my Twitter feed I'm realizing why the service is so enormously popular in Japan - you can say a lot more in 140 characters in Japanese than you can in English.  Like something near-meaningful.

Not that it isn't popular elsewhere, and I know the character limit is to some extent what defines the service, but it also feels like a hindrance and I give it a 50% chance that they'll increase it in some fashion within the next few years.

I also give it an 80% chance that most Twitter users would disagree with that statement.

You may have noticed I superscribed to the other two social media outlets, but not Twitter. I agree with your critique, but even the fleeting nature of a Tweet turns me off to the whole thing. I'd simultaneously feel like I'm missing out/can't keep up, and that what I do catch is inane and pointless most of the time. I tried Twitter twice, and just couldn't hang.

Twitter = the ADD version of Facebook. I'm surprised it's become as popular as it has.

Was reading an book about the popularity surge of Facebook and Twitter, among other things like celebrity worship and reality TV. There was a lot of interesting things in that book (title eludes me at the moment), but the general, overarching argument was that things like facebook, twitter, reality TV, et al, all gives it's users a fleeting sense of self-importance through a kind of social escapism. Pretty obvious stuff, but the way the book framed a lot of its queries was endlessly fascinating.

Great social critique, through and through. Once I find the title, I'll post it here.

I'm not a fan of either Facebook nor Twitter. I think youtube is great because we can share the music. Well, maybe you can do that with facebook and twitter too. I try to avoid both as much as possible personally.

I'm a fan of Facebook because it allows me to at least keep apprised of friends that I don't often see or hang out with.  I'm not a "reach out and find out how you're doing" kinda guy so the periodic Facebook events help me stay informed.  The unfortunate side effect of that is Facebook is now starting to filter out posts and feeds for things they don't deem "important" to me, which is great to reduce clutter but when we're talking about my friends, that's information I care about and want to see and don't want a machine determining what is and is important or who I am and am not close to.

I use Twitter almost exclusively to follow WoW game developers and the New Jersey Devils beat writer.  I know how Twitter works but I really don't get the social system.  If I want to follow someone, or read a conversation between people, I want to be able to follow it (forum style), I don't like the fact that it's difficult to follow conversations on Twitter, replies are sometimes lost if it's popular enough or that if I have more than like, 10 accounts, the posts come so fast that I get information overload (most of it non-sensical garbage).  It's cool that it's sort of a social link to celebrities and "high profile" figures, but I just don't see why it's popular with people who don't have anything meaningful to say.  *shrug*

This. My friends and I use FB to plan meetups. I don't think any of us really care or follow what anyone actually posts, although it's always nice to glance and see how everyone's doing. And yes, the filtering is annoying, but if you organize your friends into groups, you should pretty much get everything. The main feed has really gone to crap (and its now littered with advertisements).

Twitter is extremely clunky to use, which is ironic, because the posts are essentially dumbed down FB posts. That does seem to be where all the celebrity action happens though. I'm amazed FB hasn't completely buried Twitter yet.

I adore Twitter, but then I'm a news junkie and it's the fastest place to get news and info for the things I'm interested in. It's so fast and you have access to converse with people you'd never get to converse with otherwise. With Twitter, you get to curate your feed so you get exactly the kind of stuff you want, without all of the bullshit your facebook "friends" post. Since you're not friends with the people you follow, you can easily unfollow them anytime they annoy you without getting the awkward "why did you unfriend me?" questions from your real life friends on facebook. As a result, my usage of facebook has dropped to nil. I keep it as a sort of digital address book in case I need to reach someone, but otherwise it's all Twitter for me since the people I follow on Twitter talk about things I care about while my facebook friends just bore with me with pictures of their kids.

Yep, I'm with you on Twitter. The speed at which news on it is phenomenal and there are a lot of people tweeting really interesting stuff. You can follow and unfollow at will, trying out accounts to see if they're interesting and, if not, you just lose them. It has been great for my work. Firstly, just finding out about stuff early. But secondly just making contacts that then spill over into real life. The ice is already broken when people know you from twitter.