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

[trixibelle-net.livejournal.com]

See, i HATE the bloody telephone, because there is no choice involved in when you are contacted and by whom. But I find I like facebook and twitter because I can decide exactly when I go on it, and I can choose who I interact with.
I do really dislike the fake aspect of facebook, and having got the curoisity of finding out what my old school-'mates' are doing these days I promptly deleted 99% of them which was actually quite rewarding haha.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There are one or two schoolmates about whom I feel a certain curiosity- but I have no desire to contact them.