I hate it. I really do. I know coming from a blogger this could smack slightly of hypocrisy, but there you go. In fact, I take that back. Blogging is one thing- expressing one’s thoughts in a ramblingly long and hopefully rounded update on whatever one is writing about. Then there’s facebook- letting your friends know how you are and what you’re doing, and perhaps taking a quiz to see which type of biscuit you are. But twitter actually does take the biscuit- its Facebook status updates gone mad- egotistical nonsense about random crap that no-one should care about. On the Guardian website they’ve been summing up each artist’s Glastonbury performance “in a tweet”- 96 or whatever characters (or less). Since when did brevity become such a virtue that it locks you into a one sentence review of something?
I hate Twitter.
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2 responses so far ↓
Georgina // July 1, 2009 at 9:59 pm |
This reminds me of a book I was given called “One hundred great books in Haiku”.
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin:
Galapagos finch –
the same beak as Aunt Enid’s!
A theory is born.
Das Kapital by Karl Marx:
October winds blow.
Your contradictions doom you,
capitalist swine.
stevesayskanpai // July 3, 2009 at 7:10 am |
I like it! There’s certainly an art to being concise- I just think that 90% of the time with Twitter its not art but meaningless spewage.