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Do any trainers or Jockeys twitter? Is it against the rules? How about owners? It would be a good think if they did, it would link the public closer to the players in the game. And it would make for good PR for the game.

Have you searched twitter for any jockeys and trainers?

Prediction: Twitter in its current form will be extinct sooner rather than later.

Yea, don't see any of the main players

Joe Talamo "tweets" sometimes.

I hope Twitter and Facebook both go away. Far away. And never come back. Text messaging too.

Facebook is useful. Have you ever tried to look up someone you lost contact information for? It's impossible without websites like Facebook.

As for Twitter....I find no use for it

I was a panelist last week at the International Simulcast Conference -- panel looked at racing and new media.

I said that I thought both Twitter and Facebook had F-A-D written all over them. At the same time -- I threw in the caveat that I didn't want to be like the clowns in the late 40's who declared television a fad, and so I thought it was worthwhile -- particularly given the low-cost -- for racetracks and industry groups to pursue both at this time (but frankly, I'd like to see these groups spend more time improving their own websites!).

It will be interesting to see how my prediction plays out over the next 2-5 years.

I would agree with "Letswaste..." however that Facebook -- or some form of it -- might linger as a useful way to keep in touch with friends, classmates and colleagues.

Facebook's not going anywhere. There's way too much of a following in the 40-55 age group for it to go anywhere. People are into the connecting with old friends, classmates, etc.

Now that they've integrated these ridiculous games and nonsense that clogs up the log-in page the damn thing is impossible. But I still don't think it's going anywhere.

NT

You can hide all of that crap if you want.

I didnt say Facebook was going anywhere. I said hoped.
I just enjoyed day to day interaction a lot more before all this tech stuff took over everybody's lives. Kids dont play sports anymore. Teenagers would rather have internet chat sex than the real thing in the back of their car.
Adults are spending hours on end on facebook letting everybody know what drink they are mixing or who they saw at the high scholl reunion. Who the hell cares?

You guys can have all the gadgets and social networking web sites. I'd rather put these toys down and go have drinks (real liquid drinks, not icons) with my friends and look at real actual people.

Call me a scrooge all you want. Thats just me.

First of all, this assumption that one can't screw around on Facebook during the day and then go socialize at night is ridiculous. Secondly, Facebook and the like promote in-person socialization, they don't discourage it. I've hung out (and had liquid drinks!) with a bunch of people I wouldn't normally have ever seen again because we connected on Facebook.

The constant status updates of course get silly, and I don't see the need for regular people to have Twitter, but I think acting like that has some correlation to whether or not people have social lives is trite and wrongheaded. As is this "you nerds can e-chat or whatever all day, but unlike you I'd rather go see some real humans and breathe some real air, DORKS" attitude.

I also don't know what the hell text messaging has to do with Facebook or Twitter.

Sorry Tim, no personal offense, but technophobes crack me up.

I didnt say Derbytrail was going anywhere. I said hoped.
I just enjoyed day to day interaction a lot more before all this tech stuff took over everybody's lives. Kids dont go to races anymore. Teenagers would rather have internet handicapping talk than the real thing at the track.
Adults are spending hours on end on Derbytrail letting everybody know what horse they are betting or who they saw at the DeeTee race. Who the hell cares?

You guys can have all the laptops and horse racing networking web sites. I'd rather put these toys down and go see horses (real horses, not icons) with my friends and look at real actual races.

Call me a scrooge all you want. Thats just me.

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Thanks to Artie Lange for this one...

I'm growing ovaries just reading this thread.

I don't Twat but I hear twatting regularly can be fun?

Wow, I guess you told me!

So in conclusion - there is no networking when it comes to anyone at the tracks and the betting public in this age of instant access. Is that right? Truly sad that the racing industry cannot be more accessible and therefore transparent. Not much has changed in the last 30 years I guess.