Gawd, here’s another wretched invention that’s destroying civilization. I suspect that clinical psychologist Oliver James is probably correct when he suggests that “Twittering stems from a lack of identity” and guesses that the typical “follower” is likely to be “someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless.”
p.s. Hey you kids, get off my lawn!
10 Comments
February 27, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Stop playing that rock n roll so damn loud you kids!
February 27, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I’m surely not alone in thinking that Twitter is a mundane waste of time.
February 27, 2009 at 4:20 pm
somebody actually told me i should tweet them today. i looked at them like they were retarded for a moment and then laughed out loud when i cottoned on to the jargon. for half a second i thought i was being propositioned by my acquaintance. then i realized they were just an idjit with too much thumb twiddling time on the blackberry. i suppose twittering is as good an occupation as there is for all those twits.
February 27, 2009 at 4:26 pm
The name (Twitter) says it all.
February 27, 2009 at 7:16 pm
The same was said about bloggers……
February 27, 2009 at 8:37 pm
…and bloggers have definitely risen above the low expectations their title has so unfairly bestowed upon them.
February 27, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Fads – Facebook, Twitter.
Total waste of time as well.
February 27, 2009 at 9:36 pm
The same was said about bloggers……
Garbage in, garbage out.
February 27, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Kaplan — The fellow in the video is, funnily enough, the same individual responsible for coining the term “blogger” (another reason to dislike him).
February 27, 2009 at 9:52 pm
CWTF — Some of us are trying, in our own modestly subversive ways, to rise slightly above the level of “twit”…