I have seen this image on a few of the blogs I keep track of and being the curious soul that I am, I decided to finally check it out. As you probably know Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to share whatever it is you are doing with whomever is interested. I have seen this as one of the sidebars and it has things like, got coffee at Starbucks, 3 hours ago. Drove into Chicago 2 days ago. My response to those side bars is usually okay so...what?I tried to think what I would put into that little side bar. Went to 7-11 this morning...55 minutes ago. Working on the schedule 10 minutes ago. Drove to Plainfield one day ago. After a few minutes I was bored. I am not all that interested in what I have done and I am the one who did it! Either I lead a remarkably pathetic life or we are obsessed with useless information. Do you read those little things on blogs? Why? One reviewer call this the new killer app. Great - we can be bored to death.
Is this what relationships have become, watching/reading what people are doing in the minutia of their lives? Have we traded conversations for texting, interacting with virtual stalking? In this circumstance technology is not our friend. Grab a no.2 pencil and legal lad and write a letter and in detail describe your day and whatever else you want your friends to know about your life.
I can promise you and anyone else who cares, Twitter ain't happening here!
2 comments:
Check out the reviews of Nicholson Baker's new book "Smoke" that is a history of WWII with nothing but unedited pieces of print: newspaper articles, telegrams, letters, diaries, etc. All raw data of day-to-day with no narrative. Kind of like going to the story, but milk, go home!
Well then Twitter will be interesting in about 50 years.
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