I’m a technology philistine and I don’t see the point of Twitter.
Admittedly, I’m often one of the last to catch on to new technology phenomena: for years I shied away from iPods, and I’m still using a cellphone bought in 2004 (and have only just been convinced it’s time to replace it), but it’s going to take a lot of convincing to get me to see Twitter in the way that the rest of the world seems to.
For that reason, this blog was interesting reading for me. I have actually checked out Twitter, and I’ve found it to be largely vacuous drivel. Maybe I’m just not given to philosophising but I can go for days without updating my Facebook status if I don’t have anything to update people on, so I’m not sure how I could do it several times a day. “I’m eating raspberry jam on toast for breakfast.” “The coffee this morning is nice and strong”. “I’m doing some real work – woohoo!” “I think I need another coffee.”
I’ll never say never. But I still think I need some more convincing.
Hi, glad to land on your blog!
Speaking of social networks, I think the same way, too. I’m not actually a tech-savvy person. I surf the Internet, blog, write and reply mails, but a daily routine of Twitter or Facebook status updating is not part of my addiction, to say the least. I find some people who love to update their Twitter and Facebook status every other minute, which looks insane to me. I can understand when they use social networks for professional reason but sharing private, trivial details of our daily routines on social networking sites seems to me to be a waste of time.