"What Are You Doing?"...NOT Twitter!

Although I have succumbed to Facebook, I think it will be a LONG time (if ever) before I feel compelled to join Twitter.

What is Twitter? For the uninitiated, I’ve included a short tutorial below, called “Twitter in Plain English”. Of course, the larger question is….WHY?

Why does anyone CARE about what I’m doing right now? Why would they follow people like NBC White House Correspondent David Gregory, who has a huge following? A typical post may say “I’m going into the White House Press Room now”.

Well, bully for you.

I thought e-mail was fast. Then came IM (Instant Messaging). Of course, you can’t haul a computer around with you, so cell phone TEXTING was next-your teenagers know all about this—and I admit it can be a useful tool, but I’ll use it to text my daughter questions like “Where are you?”, “who are you with?”, “where are you going?”, etc. The answers to these questions are vital to a parent.

We are so wrapped up in a digital world of instant communication that we are sacrificing REAL EXPERIENCES –WHY? We are too busy working our thumbs on texting or Twitter to tell people we don’t even know the most mundane things about the activity we are engaging in at that instant.

Compelling.

If Shakespeare or Dickens had Twitter, they would never have finished a single volume. The constant distraction of “tweeting” (or whatever the hell it is called) would have been enough to lose their train of thought..”To tweet or not to tweet…that is the question…”

At President Obama’s first appearance in the House chamber speaking to Congress on issues of great import, there were MEMBERS OF CONGRESS typing away on the cell phones about Nancy Pelosi’s hairdo or when a college basketball game was to start. They completely ignored their presence at an historic occasion and resorted to a crude form of chronicling the proceedings without really paying attention to what was actually happening all around them!

OK…here’s your Twitter tutorial---and for equal measure, a spoof of the same which I can identify with far more readily!





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

Now, here’s the spoof!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w


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