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.

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[redatt.livejournal.com]

Curiosity landed me with a Facebook after years of resistance, now I only keep it because it's turned out to be an ace way of playing Scrabble and a couple of other word games.

I like Twitter, but I was both amused and irked the other day when I an old friend got pissed off because I took over a week to respond to a semi-important question that he asked me via Twitter's private message feature, he even started making passive-aggressive status updates about it on Facebook because he felt all offended over apparently being ignored. "Duffus," said I, "it was half-term last week and I'm not actually MARRIED to the Internet."

So, yes, I agree, I feel they intrude too -- or at least that they give some people certain [unrealistic] expectations about how much accesses they are entitled too one's life.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've never used Twitter. To be honest I wouldn't know how. I can see how it might be fun, but I don't feel any need for it.
Perhaps I'll come round to it in time.

I'm a late adopter with most technologies. I was still using a manual typewriter long after most people had moved over to word processors and pcs.