Social Media

[poliphilo]

I don't have a Facebook page and I don't Twitter. I've spent my life avoiding random and meaningless social contacts and why should I change now, just because we've got a technology that enables them?  I see people are beginning to complain about how much time these things eat and how they're the death of proper, slow, worked-out thinking. Well, yes, of course. 

I'm not a technophobe. I understand how useful Twitter and Facebook are as tools of revolution. I hate them not because they're new but because- like the telephone- they intrude.

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I have a Facebook page. I hate Facebook with a white-hot passion, most days, and on the rest find it merely annoying.

So far, I have been reunited with precisely one friend from years gone by that I actually wanted to hear from. The rest of my supposed friends and former class mates are, with a few exceptions, contagiously stupid right-wing reactionaries. I am ashamed of even a distant association with many of them and, when it comes to a few, I am ashamed to say that we are apparently of the same species.

For the record, I despise the telephone as well.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I can see Facebook has its uses, but I have managed to position myself in a place where I don't need it- thank God!

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Stick to your guns!