
Shut Up!
I know I shouldn’t let crap like this bug me but it does. I’m not perfect, sorry.
Nicole Brodeur from the Seattle Times launched a rant about how glad she was that Twitter was down. In fact she’d like to send the Russian hackers who were trying to keep a Georgian blogger silent a fruit basket. Nice.In all fairness Nicole probably didn’t realize the down time may be due to political cyber warfare, she was to busy “…spinning around on a virtual mountaintop like Julie Andrews in “The Sound of Music.”"
She goes on to complain that “Twittering three, four times a day seems more of a chore. And I wonder if all this “What are you doing?” is really worth the trouble.”
Really? Posting 140 characters or less 3-4 times a day is just too much to handle? Wow!
All of this griping is one thing but the lunacy she ends her post with is really special.
More importantly, does anyone really care?
A new Nielsen survey says no; that the “teens” we middle-aged folks are trying to keep up with really don’t Twitter at all.
So, because teens aren’t on Twitter no one cares? When did teens make up the only subset of the population that matters? And who the hell ever thought teens were on Twitter in the first place? Seriously? You want to know who? People who weren’t on Twitter. Ask anyone who’s been on Twitter and we could have told you teens weren’t here.
And finally:
In other words, our efforts to keep up with kids today are causing us to act like children ourselves. Narcissistic, time-wasting little Twits.
WTF?!? I act like a narcissistic twit all on my own thank you very much, I don’t do it to keep up with “kids today.”
Honestly and in all seriousness. To Nicole and anyone else if Twitter is that much of a problem, get off. Any social networking tool is about building a network of like minded people. Sharing and adding value. If you have nothing of value to add then don’t. Go read your morning paper and drink your coffee. I’m sharing links with my friends and discovering new and useful things.
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