You interrupt my life, my dates, my sleep, my time with my husband. You constantly buzz him to tell him that you just, “Watched the best movie” or “Ate the best chicken”. I hate you Twitter.
Twitter is the most ridiculous of all of the social networking sites. I despise that Lance gets a million texts a day from people that he rarely talks to all for them to say what they just did. This process of sending messages sounds a little familiar…oh yeah, A TEXT MESSAGE! Here’s an idea, if you want someone to know what you just did, send them a personal text. What? You wouldn’t send a text to someone to say that you “just watched Ghost Busters on TV and fell asleep”? I think you are on to something with that line of thought. Keep going with it. If you wouldn’t send a text like that out of the blue to your friend , you probably shouldn’t send it out in mass quantities to groups of people.
Some people follow people they don’t really even know. Following celebrities, singers, people in the media of any type that you admire is basically like getting a first hand tabloid to your phone. You wouldn’t pick up a magazine to see what “Britney Spears did today but by golly if you can get a mass message, impersonal text that she just went to hot yoga then by golly you do it!
Why do I want to know what you are doing every five seconds? If you want to update the world, then do facebook statuses. It’d be twitter only better though because my facebook status isn’t going to ring to your phone during your dinner, all to tell you that I just went for a jog.
Of all of the Internet things to do with your time, Twitter is the most pointless. There are more noble things to do with your life than interrupt your time with your family and friends by receiving a play by play of someone’s life. Someone who 99 percent of the time you don’t even care to invest in a real relationship with or someone who you don’t even really know.
And then there are the times when Lance gets Twitters from respectable, well known family men who have slammed busy schedules and the text says, “Getting to enjoy my family at PF Changs tonight” The only thing I can think is, “You are busy all the time. You don’t have much family time. Heaven forbid you don’t take out your phone while you are with them and just BE with them!” Surely you can sever your ties with your electronics at least momentarily! I, in all sincerity, lose respect for people when they are busy, busy men and they text meaninglessness to people during their precious family time.
I realize you can get any social networking to your phone: myspace, facebook, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I’m against all of them when they’re something you have with you at all times that alerts you when there’s a new video you need to watch or an action you need to know I’ve just taken. It’s hard enough to get away from your daily schedule and even harder still, from technology. Thankfully though we can have it allure us, tempt us, and even send us a signal to our phones when a new piece of “juicy” information is waiting.
Someone out there is inevitably reading this blog and thinking, “She’s writing about technology being disruptive and pointless and she’s writing an Internet blog….hmmmmm.” First of all, don’t make me beat you up. Second, I blog when I don’t have the opportunity to be with my family. Lance is mowing. I am venting. So no time is really lost. Moreover, I like to think that I’m using my gifts and it’s something I do to enjoy myself and blow off steam. I hope I blog honestly and encourage others in the process so that there is actually some bigger purpose. I don’t like blogs that are extended Twitter messages detaling that, I went to the grocery and then I slept etc. Some might say, “Well Twitter is my hobby and I enjoy it.”
The day my hobby becomes sending update sentences to people on their cell phones….
Just shoot me.
