Just when you think you’ve got enough friends in the world to hold a decent orgy, some geek in California tells you it’s not enough and that you should be sharing your body fluids in a virtual world, where people aren’t called Bob and Sue anymore but CP30 and BilboBagit. I’ve resisted Facebook but now, I’m in danger of being sucked into Twitter. Like an adolescent schoolboy who’s worried his testicles might be the wrong shape, I’m dithering by the bedroom door . What do I say, what do I do? Is it really of interest to JellyFrog or RustyNail that I’ve just had a jam sandwich or that I’ve shrunk my angora jumper on a hot wash. It all looks like a load of wittering to me. Help.
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Don’t do it Anna, I don’t get the twittering thing either. People tell me that you can gauge the pulse of what’s happening right now….that these “twitters” are forming trends, that,..
I’ve had enough of trying to Twitter, but perhaps I am just old fashioned?
‘Trends’? Maybe, I don’t know enough about it to respond on that front. As to your last point, I don’t think it’s a case of being old-fashioned, it’s more like having a life with flesh and blood folk and not feeling the need to spill your every rumination with a cast of thousands. I reckon it’s a deep narcissistic rut we’re in at the moment and it’s not a pretty place to be.
Mmmm Anna, not sure about your last point…how about this blog then ?;-)
Before you get the wrong impression from my last comment…it was about the amount of “ruminations YOU spill with a cast of thousands” not about you being deeply narcissistic!
I think it’s just that we are more open about things when we write on the net, we don’t think about the millions or in my case 10’s of people who will read our comments, and Internet 2.0 has given everyone the opportunity to be a writer or a commentator in the sense of expressing themselves…that’s not so bad is it? Answers on a Twitter, blog, web-site, social bookmark, Facebook Digg it PLEASE!
I don’t think it’s bad to want to express yourself but I think it’s ironic that as we are retreating more and more into a physical bubble in terms of how we relate to the people immediately around us, we are having ‘conversations’ with people we don’t know and are never going to meet. I think that’s really sad and rather strange.
Being a facebook fan, I can confirm that last week I met two women (who started off being my virtual ‘friends’). We had a great afternoon at an art exhibition and then went for a beer….so those virtual conversations can become something more interesting…
But, I do agree with you in some respects in that I feel like I have spoken to someone when I email them or text them…and that’s strange.
I love the mix of virtual and real….let’s just not let the virtual takeover the real, which is why I am looking forward to seeing you in the flesh in May.
Suex