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

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

If you are going to dislike those things, that's a fine reason to dislike them. :)

I cannot abide Facebook because I can feel my ability to concentrate fracturing when I use it. Constant updates in one feed, games in another part of the window, chat windows popping up... it scatters me. Even without the privacy issues, I found it hard to focus.

Twitter I like fine. I can ignore it. When I pay attention to it, it only does one thing at me. That I can handle.

[redatt.livejournal.com]

Fortunately the Fb chat feature can be switched off, because otherwise Fb would cause me to explode.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've never used Facebook. I've looked at other people's pages- and decided I don't understand what's going on and don't particularly want to. I can see that Twitter could be fun- but I don't feel any need for it.