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Mandrake wrote:Had a look a few weeks ago and decided that the first sylable said it all.....

Let's not get insulting, mandrake...

Tomo wrote:Aye, but it is somewhat bizarre to have that kind of access to the wonderful Stephen Fry...

Yeah, it is weird. To get a message from the great man himself, even if it's a hi, is a great feeling

I don't find your twitter posts boring Kolm - I don't find them at all

Facebook - should have stayed as it was, a means for students to arrange p*ss-ups and share/comment on photos of said p*ss-ups. That's what lots of us still use it for, only now we have to fight our way through "Benji threw a cheesecake at you, throw one back?" and "Chelsea invites to you be a triangle! Join the triangles vs. squares fight and start making other people triangles now!" and the stupid new twatter-wannabe layout to meaningfully interact with our real, physical friends.

Blogs - mostly self-important rubbish, redeemed by the fact that rubbish ones seem to die out quite quickly, and some people devote their blogs to ukulele chords or recipes. Occasionally people say something interesting too.

But twitter... my goodness... unbelievable that some website creator has managed to convince people that they care about the minutia of everyone else's lives! As usual, under the guise of "staying connected", when what it really means is "replacing human conversation". Has no one seen the film Wall-E?!

When my Mum starts telling me about something and (as she invariably does) starts getting lost in the trivial details... "oh, it must have been Tuesday because it's when I went to the supermarket... it was the Waitrose on Ecclesall Road...", I say what needs to be said: "GET TO THE BL**DY POINT!". So for someone to create a website based on broadcasting these meaningless bits of brain dribble... I can feel the banality of it almost choking me... Don't you twitterers feel your life dripping away, minute by minute, pointless update by pointless update...?


Ahem. Slight rant.

Farlsborough wrote: So for someone to create a website based on broadcasting these meaningless bits of brain dribble... I can feel the banality of it almost choking me... Don't you twitterers feel your life dripping away, minute by minute, pointless update by pointless update...?

Not too angry today then Farlsy?

Have you seen what you started Tomo? :p

Anyway, twitter is a mini blog type thing Farlsborough. And I guess as with every decent blog (they're out there if you know where to look) you're going to get the self-important "Brushing my teeth, regretting last night. Oh why did I have to tell freddie that?", again it's finding the right people to follow

kolm wrote:it's finding the right people to follow

True. I have no real interest in what most of my friends get up to. If I knew, they'd have nothing to tell me when we meet up, but having access to interesting people is fascinating. Paul Daniels is discussing prostate care, Stephen Fry is getting upset over shark fin soup in an Indonesian market. Editors I'm too scared to phone lest they're too busy and frown upon interesting ideas are suddenly available. It's how you use the service, not that you're merely using that counts, I think.