Social Networking Chatter Bores Me To Tears
Afternoon thoughts as I dig through the news feeds.
I can't decide what bores me more:
Blog popularity politics or tracking the bubbly social networking startup enthusiasm on TechMeme. Not to slight the thousands of bloggers who get digital erections over the sheer fucking genius idea of putting calendars online, mind you.
Marginally more interesting? Ron Jeremy doing technology reviews. And while the idea is pop culture cheese itself, I see more common sense and intelligence in his opinions than I do from most of the blog arena's techno-analyst superstars.
"When I see my friends e-mailing or texting back and forth to each other, I say: "Idiots. Pick up the damn phone and talk to each other." I never understand that. You guys are going backwards in technology. We have voices now. You don't have to telegraph or Morse code each other. Why don't you get up on a mountain top and do Morse code with a flag?"If it wasn't for luddites, nobody would notice we were logging into eighteen social networking sites to take a leak.