So I considered heading over there just to give Dave an indication that I'm actually, you know, chirping. But to what end? What do I have to say in 140 characters or less? What do I have to say at all?
I've kinda sorta followed Roger Ebert's tweets, who is apparently a tweeting-machine, but all he's doing is promoting this cause or that event. Well that's mostly what he's doing. He's not exactly tweeting his life. He's tweeting the lives of others. Which is a bit creepy actually. How quintessentially disorienting! You might think that, like bats, we'd make these noises in order to home in on something. To find direction. To know where we're going. But tweeting is mostly directionless twaddle.
Really what does tweeting add that a Facebook status update doesn't cover? Or even this little, mostly daily, ranty thing that I do? If someone can tell me why tweeting is grand, other than being obnoxiously self-absorbed with my mobile device in the lobby of a "generic public space," I'd like to hear it.
I understand the usefulness of it in a revolution, as in Egypt, but that's just a kind of shotgun texting. The cell phone doesn't really need Twitter does it. Isn't the cell phone text "Twitter" itself? So why why why is this so huge? It's just a repeated money-shot spunk spew landing on anyone who'll pay attention. Why are we so open-mouthed about this idiocy?
On a promotional note (I know I know, I ought to Tweet this), Grease, the musical I'm directing together with Jana, will open on the 23rd and run to the 26th! It's fun and it'll be a great little evening of entertainment!
Ride report:
in: -7'C wind NW 30 ks
out: had a rehearsal, a blizzard blew in, wimped out and took a car-ride
1 comment:
ANYONE can view your "tweets" when they're following you. You don't have to give them permission. If someone wants to be your "friend" on facebook, you have the power to deny them friendship! With a cell phone, only the people who have your number will text you. But..... I guess if eveyone had a blog it would be relatively the same thing. So in the end, I guess Twitter is just another new format to promote the individual... but who really wants to read about another persons daily life? Yikes.
On that note, you should watch Catfish... it's mildly related to this topic.
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