vbthedog

Twitter drives me nuts.

Oh yes I accept it has its place and is indeed useful (eg the Libyan and Egyptian riots), and ABCs Q&A works it beautifully,  but why do people think that inane information is of any interest to the masses.

And yes I do use Twitter to broadcast links to my Blogs, Websites and more. But not details of my life minute by minute.

Just today, I have seen a photo of a cup of tea that someone thought I needed to know she was having. Another just said ‘it’s bedtime’. Fine just go to bed. Not my business. And yet another advises me how many calories have been burned over the last 20 minutes.

Think about it. These people take the time to thumb this information into their mobile phones or iPads and send it, costing them time they’ll never get back, and telecom fees that are exorbitant. All for what? 1 second of fame?

Or are these people so shallow and insecure, they need us to know what they are doing every second of every day to get their jollies?

“I’m eating a hamburger. Nom Nom.”

“Time to get blonded”

“Must. Resist. Temptation”.

And these are just a few of the non-event comments thrown out daily. In most cases, the rest of us have NO frickin’ idea what the hell they are talking about!

Just sit down in your favourite shopping centre or mall (as in the proper term mall and not the US ‘shopping mall’ ) and watch passers-by. We have become a nation of head down, staring at a mobile phone and thumbing and reading constant streams of nonsense zombies as we shuffle around mindlessly.

And there are those that say “I’ll DIE without my iPhone”. Toughen up princess, you’d get over it. Or am I wrong here and some insidious disease has overtaken our young and not so young?

It’s perplexing. And what is even weirder is that the people I mainly interact with are youngish, urban professionals in either the journalist or PR industry who are paid to write and be lucid and fluid with words.

So a TWEET such as ‘OMG, I am sooooo excited I just wet my pants a little” simply mystifies me…. Especially as he/she has added their name to it. Media professionals have been fired or reprimanded for less. So is it these sorts of TWEETS are accepted now as part of the culture? From an industry who is supposed to, and is proud of, educating us?

ZOMG I. Hope. Not. LOL….