Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Posting via telepathy

Saturday, March 31st, 2007 11:58 pm
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I'm beginning a campaign. This shall be a sticky post until the idea is implemented, or I get tired of campaigning for it, whichever comes first.

Title
Posting via telepathy

Short, concise description of the idea
Instant journal updates just by thinking of them!

Full description of the idea
Use telepathy to post to your journal; no need to type up posts. You'll never again have to worry about losing another entry just because you couldn't make it to a computer in time.

An ordered list of benefits

  • no more discrimination against slow typers

  • will help those with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

  • more accessible to those with assorted disabilities

  • sometimes, you think of something brilliant to post but can't remember what it was when you sit down to type it. If you could only post it the moment you think the thought, you would stop losing these brilliant ideas


An ordered list of problems/issues involved

  • possible discrimination against slow thinkers

  • possible discrimination against visual thinkers (versus verbal thinkers). Solve it by adding a telepathic module for LJ's Scrapbook

  • sometimes, certain ideas that were brilliant when you thought them up turn out not to be so when you post them. This isn't because you forgot the original phrasing or whatnot; it's because the idea wasn't actually brilliant in the first place. Certain LJ users may be forced to realize this and bruise their egos

  • LJ would first have to prove the existence of telepathy

  • LJ would have to develop in people the ability to post telepathically

  • LJ would have to develop or buy the hardware required to catch telepathic posts. Such hardware would have to work at the speed of thought

  • billions of people would realize that this is a brilliant idea, sign up for LJ, and try to post at once. Might kill the servers

  • LJ would be blamed for an upsurge in stream-of-consciousness writing

  • possibility of posts containing certain thoughts that users would, ah, rather not admit to

  • dude, thoughtcrime


An organized list, or a few short paragraphs detailing suggestions for implementation

  • I don't know, but the idea is absolutely fab, and I'm sure that everyone will love LJ forever if you would just give us this (oh, and more userpics)



(Originally posted as a comment here. Reposting it as an entry because I need to put it somewhere where I can edit the grammar. Also, grabbed the title and short description from [livejournal.com profile] chasethestars).