"It is time for you to stop all of your {twittering}
Yes it's time for you stop all of your {twittering}
Gotta stop {twittering} now
Yeah, Stop it, Stop it
Gotta stop {twittering} now
Copyright Ray Davies, The Kinks (Stop Your Sobbing)
Recently hackers disrupted Twitter's website, disrupting service for about two hours. This was considered a major disaster by some twits (my petname for those that use Twitter). The Twitter withdrawl symptoms were swift and agonizing. Some twits literally shut down and could not function. All they could do was check every two or three minutes to see if Twitter was back online.
Perhaps I should be more sympathetic, but I'm not. There is something wrong with people whose lives revolve completely around Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and all the other online social networks that have become so popular.
Are you addicted to Twitter? Could you live without Twitter for a day or two without going bonkers? Is it really so important to let everyone in Twitterland know what you had for breakfast? Is it really so vital for you to know what other twits ate for breakfast?
Only you can answer those questions for yourself.
Thank you to Ray Davies and The Kinks, and Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders, for inspiring this rant.
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My name is Sharon and I'm an OS-aholic.
ooops...wrong topic.
Rated
are true twits...and I care not a whit
for any twiddling twits who fritter
all their time away on superficial s--t!
When people were saying that maybe everyone should join Twitter and set their location to Iran to MAYBE slow the government down from weeding out journalists who used Twitter, I joined and set my location to Iran, but, of course, I never tweet, because, what do I have to say that is so spellbinding?
Oh, Little Willie, you are full of wisdom!
Cartouche - Sorry. I'm not going to fall for that trick and tell everyone what I had for breakfast.
Love1lee - I'm just trying to stir up some decent dialogue about something other than healthcare.
Life Is Good - I am still in denial about my OS addiction.
marytkelly - I did not intend this post to be about "addictions," but I am in agreement with you about the importance of moderation and balance in life - wish I could get some of that.
Owl_Says_Who - Owls are too wise to twitter away their time.
Typo - There's a strong chance that your employer is monitoring all of your communications. Be careful.
JK Brady - Are you being naughty?
micalpeace - The Kinks are often overshadowed by The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and The Who. I like The Kinks just as much as any of those bands.
Mr. Mustard - We need you here fulltime on OS. No more twits.
Steve Blevins - You look like a "morse code" kind of guy. I mean that as a compliment.
EvaT.Made Vaudeville - I love your poem
Buffy W - I did not know that about Kevin Spacey. Odd behavior.
sweetfeet - Yes! Another nonbeliever.
O'Really - You are unstopable.
But at least, posting and commenting on OS is not addictive. Right?
We can leave it alone. Can't we? It's not a problem untill you admit it. Right?
Trudge164 - Just take it one blog at a time.
Oh BTW what the hell is a twit? Where do they live? Never saw one yet. Not yet. Friggin twits. Ain't goin there. Never. Too much to do here.
twitter/facebook and all that is the equivalent of what we older people used to do during the day OUTSIDE the house or at work. we'd talk about what we had for breakfast. we'd catch a cup of coffee in the kitchen and shoot the shit mindlessly. we connected with people, we looked into eyes.
we don't go outside our cubicles, get up from our computers or acknowledge a neighbor except with a pod firmly installed in our ears so we don't have to talk. we don't care. we don't look (except surreptitiously). we try hard NOT to connect. except on line. we connect here. I think we've become chickenshit. I don't know if I blame us. we're basement dwelling crazy.
Yarn Over - I definitely think that "Twit-ism" is age related.
Boomer Bob - I learned about twits from watching "Monty Python's Flying Circus" when I was a kid.
Wally_M - Twits and wankers are close cousins.
denese - you're not too old.
GJI Penguin - Why did you move to Saudi Arabia?
:)
Ariana Paz - I admit that there are some practical uses for Twitter. Informing the world what you had for breakfast is not one of them.
Jeff Howe - There are lots of "dead" people walking around these days. I don't think you qualify as a member of the walking dead.
I resist Twitter on principle for this very reason. I'm addicted enough to my email.
shiral - Technology was supposed to make our lives more efficient. Instead we spend large blocks of time reading, replying, and deleting mountains of e-mail. Who has time for Twitter? Not me.