Can it be long before the first couple meets and falls in love over Twitter? A friend points out that that great prophet, Walt Disney, foresaw all of this decades ago:
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Since I am over the age of 30 and an adult not a over grown child, could someone please tell me what the hell Twitter is?
Since I am over the age of 30 and an adult not a over grown child, could someone please tell me what the hell Twitter is?
Having come across the formula to convert ignorance into a sense of superiority, I daresay you have no use for Twitters.
Honestly Daniel I don't know what it is. It doesn't make me superior. I assume Twitter is some kind of lame "Second Life" kind of thing.
John, your comment that you were an adult and not an over grown child (which implied Megan McArdle is one) was posted because you want to feel superior despite your ignorance. It would have also taken you 10 seconds with Google to figure out Twitter if you were truly curious.
JordanT highlights a pet peeve of mine - people who won't look things up.
It takes all of 1 second to put 'twitter' in to google, and the first result is the relevant one. It can't possibly be faster to post on a comment thread and await responses. This isn't 1970, you don't have to break out your Encyclopedia Britannica or head down to the library, do a simple search and get the answer.
And yet otherwise smart people do it all the time. I think it is just a certain personality type. If we were to analyze it like John, perhaps it's just a combination of lazy/superior people who thing other's time is less important than their own and prefer to have others do the dirty work.
The same reason I suppose why the owner of the company I work for was always asking (messaging) for my credit card number (company card) instead of just getting his out of his wallet to check it. Naturally I always make him wait longer to get it than if he had just pulled out his wallet.
You know, I can see why folks might want to tell their friends about an Alanis concert or the new Hootie and the Blowfish album, or how their Zone dinner turned out, or what they thought of Seinfeld.
I can see how it would be neat to tell everyone at once on their Newtons or Startacs or Compuserve accounts.
But "tweeting" just doesn't sound right.