Sometimes I feel like a complete dinosaur. I've been online since the old BBS days (google it, ya whippersnapper) and every time I feel like I've got a handle on the newest thing, here comes the NEXT newest thing. I only joined MySpace in order to kind of keep tabs on my kids - all of 'em, including the ones I didn't give birth to. I avoided Facebook for as long as possible but then dear friend Mary's darling daughter invited me to join and I got roped in. Apparently MySpace is now out and Facebook is in, so I don't spend much time on MySpace anymore. I'm probably missing something but am beyond caring. More and more names keep showing up on Facebook so I keep friending people.. and I'm just about overwhelmed.Now there's Twitter, the most useless fad invented (to date) - in my humble opinion, natch. I mean, really! Why, oh why do I need to know the up-to-the-minute latest thoughts spewing from the feeble minds of idiots like John Mayer and Ashton Kutcher? I thank the ghods that I don't have a damn cell phone so I at least have an excuse for not twittering, or tweeting, or whatever lame-ass term is used for bothering strangers at all hours with each and every one of your foolish thoughts.
Christ. It makes me long for hard-wired phones and computers, for the days when if someone had something to say they had to call you, and if you weren't there they had to call back! Don't look for me on the Twitter any time soon. I'm already maxed out on the Facebook thing.
Not buying any more video machines either. I have access to Hulu for television, YouTube for old videos, and I have a library card for everything else, thankyouverymuch!
UPDATE: I'm not the only one who thinks these things are bad: Family time eroding as Internet use soars
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Woo! I gave up on MySpace, the pages people create with 8 million animated graphics and 20 YouTube videos not only drag my poor machine to a near stand still they remind me terribly of the early web pages everyone was creating on those now defunct free hosting sites "Hi! I'm Billy, here's my favorite links!" (and 50 animated GIFS) Plus I caught up with 5x the friends I lost touch with on Facebook.
I too come from the olden days, DDialing on a 150 baud dumb-term. Vic-20 and the 300 baud vic-modem.
I agree, whole heartedly. Twitter is the most useless junk I've ever seen. I've got a blog if I need or want people to know what I'm doing. I've also got the status doohicky over on Facebook. Do I really need yet another way of annoying people?
I know. I gave up myspace too (as my friend asked me, "Are you going to delete your page, or just let it rot? "Oh, I'll just let it rot," was my answer." And I finally got a twitter account. I only use it to plug the blogs. Whether it gets me more readers, I don't really know. Can you tell I'm out of work?
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