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

[airstrip.livejournal.com]

To be honest, as much of a technophile as I am, I really never got very excited about Facebook or Twitter. For the most part, they seem to mostly extend the ability of chit-chatters to chit-chat. Beyond that, they allow people to constantly update me on what they're doing; I'm not a fan of real time narration.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've never been one for chit chat. I think we have a human duty not to bore one another.