General Discussion

Who cares about twitter? Apparently, many do. But I've never "gotten it." It's just a modern-day version of a bulletin board (BBS.) I'm glad my life doesn't revolve around the spontaneous thoughts and utterances of ... well, anyone! It's like millions of people live and breathe on such things as if nothing were more important in their lives than what some Tom, Dick and Harry thinks or has to say about things. Are these people's lives so empty? There may be the occasional interesting thing on twitter, but whatever it is can easily be discovered in many other ways. Twitter seems to be just the latest way for people to try to become "famous for being famous" and generate interest and, of course, money off their hoped-for "celebrity status."

This is not that different from people going crazy about what a right-wing talk or TV show said and then go on a posting tirade about "did you hear what so-and-so said? It was horrible!!11!!" My first reaction is to think, "if it bothers you so much, why are you even watching/listening to it?" They've been sucked into an addiction to the world of outrage porn, which is really what all such shows -- and twitter itself -- are.

Speaking of tirades, I will stop mine here! LOL