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Facebook is a potluck, twitter is times square. It is clear what Empire Avenue is.

The previous answers grapple with clear senses of the concept ‘intuition’, but I will attempt to discuss the concept more broadly.

I will argue that asserting ‘intuition’ to be synonymous with a form of ‘prediction’ is inaccurate. Intuition is at the very least a faculty of the mind. Beyond that, ‘intuition’ refers to a faculty of the mind that we (to this day) find very mysterious (every term I use is a technical term). Beyond that, this ‘faculty’ is undoubtedly very deep and dear to each of us qua person/individual/self. My final conclusion will be that: ‘Intuition’ (qua faculty) can safely be considered synonymous with ones ‘Guardian Angel’. More details to follow.

If we want to remain safely naturalistic, ‘prediction’ is a form of calculation. If my senses are attuned, most people won’t be happy considering ‘intuition’ a form of ‘calculation’ (neither am I). For all intents and purposes (a tall claim follows), intuition is fruitfully comparable to (what I will call) short-hand thinking. At this rough and ready level, our experience frequently finds analogy in “reading the signs”.

Which leads me to the mystery of ‘intuition’: This mysteriousness arises when people (ordinary people) attempt to explain these thought processes. Another will ask, “How did you know that?” and you will reply “I don’t know”. Implicit to this exchange is a pat-on your higher faculties’ backs (howsoever we decide to define ‘higher faculties’). Forgive my mysterianistic treatment, but mysteries must be treated with mysterianism (among other modes of approach).

As I am attempting to breach the physical barrier and discuss each and everyone’s experience, readers may be justifiably speechless at levels of such intimacy. Intuition can also be safely considered an “inner dialogue” of sorts. Some call it a dialog with ones own “Guardian Angel”, some call it “luck”.

We have decided to get in and get out quit on this point. The final line of the movie reprises an earlier line: Away from the things of man. We unanimously agree that this line should read: A way for the things of man. [#TomHanks #MegRyan #JohnPatrickShanley #JoeversusTheVolcano]

It is common to see “Social Media Experts” tweeting around short links to articles written by other “experts”, the source articles full of nothing but speculation about what Twitter or Facebook (or any #SocialSearch platform) even are. Fuckphilosophy.com has already made the tip of their position known (here and here). Twitter is the public face, the press secretary, the ticker-tape. Twitter is not like television; in fact, Twitter is nearly the opposite of television. Twitter is 100% advertising. Twitter is a marketing #medium. On the face of it, Facebook isn’t a marketing/media platform, but that is what it is turning into.¹

I am calling Twitter: The Democratization of Marketing/Advertising.² Now, just a Twitter account and an idea, and you can be off networking.

And what really makes Twitter beautiful is that it uses SMS.

1. It’s too bad FB couldn’t have remained private – even though my FB is public. [↩]
2. Now, everyone can compete on the the market floor. Back in the days of television, one had to have inordinate amounts of money to put their face and thoughts on the telly. [↩]

The following appears to be clear to everyone here @fuckphilosophy, but it just dawned on us that the connection might not have been made in the #publicsphere: @charliesheen and @aleistercrowley.

Now wait just a second folks. We are NOT insinuating that Sheen-Yus is actually an incarnation of Satan. Just wanted to get that straight.

The present communique is for Charlie Sheen particularly: Look at the case of Aleister Crowley.

click here———-> aka ‘TwinTweets’

I’ve been heralding the following distinction: FB is¹ private. When I say ‘is/should be/should stay’, I mean that Facebook must always give the user the choice to keep their FB private.²

The difference between Twitter and Facebook is the difference between “who you hang out with/talk to on the phone” and “which television programs/commercials you watch” – roughly. On the surface, it could be argued that this analogy carries to the case of Facebook’s Like/Friend format and Twitter’s following/follower format, but this is a disanalogy.

To ‘follow’ someone is ambiguous. A businessman follows both the companies that he/she is in competition with as well as their competitors. The very very minor point I’m trying to make is that the fact that a particular twitter user A “follows” another user or entity B, does not entail that A “likes“ B; the fact that A follows B is consistent with A detests B. See?

Remaining is the realm of ambiguity surrounding the Facebook Like. This issue is far far too multifarious for this post and gets down to why, whether and in what sense anybody:

1. Means what they say in any given situation,
2. Is in full control of their own vocabulary/grammar or not, and
3. Is persuaded/guided by mass appeal (and how whole-heartedly).

Thus, I won’t expand further.

1. should be and should remain [↩]
2. although it might not be FB’s default setting [↩]

I see the ‘#’¹ to become the discussion-level search tag of #thefuture.² Consider my most recent tweet:

#fuckphilosoph - #fb:#tw::#prvt:#pblc #facebook #twitter #twtr #private #privacy #public #publicsphere #pblcsphr #fkphlsph #phlsphy #webs

A “tweet” is 140 characters and each #hashtag uses one character.³ The above tweet is (possibly) the most densely-formatted⁴  tweet ever made.

Each hash term is (in effect) it’s own channel. The above tweet is a GRE-like analogy following the ‘#fuckphilosophy’ channel tag. After the analogy is a bunch of search terms (or ‘channels’) of various encodings.⁵

1. hashtag n. – The #hyperlink #hyprlnk symbol at the level of the Tweet (or ‘tweet‘). [↩]
2. It may even infect #fb; I have already begun to drop in in fb statuses. [↩]
3. Without being an expert in telephony signals, the place to look to understand the base #machinecode level of a tweet, #SMS messaging and telephony in general is here: #SS7 (I haven’t figured this stuff out yet). [↩]
4. and technologically deep [↩]
5. Removing vowels being one. [↩]