Mar 13 2009
Pardon My Skepticism
I am one of Ed Driscoll’s biggest fans, but I am just as profoundly uninterested in the latest, hottest web 2.0 gimmicks as I am pop culture. I’m not sure what the excitement about Twitter is about; from what I’ve seen, it’s nothing more than individual sentences, blogging reduced to its tersest and least communicative, and I fail to see the point.
Last week, there was an article somewhere about how Facebook was the most pointless, more boring thing on the Web. I got an invitation to join a group from someone I hadn’t heard from since the 80s, and created a Facebook account. I must concur. It’s pointless. It’s boring. Why bother?
2 responses so far
Are you really asking? I love Facebook. My husband even more so. Since we move frequently, it’s a great way to keep in touch with our friends and family. And our friends are scattered all over the world. My husband uses it mostly to trade jokes and insults with old friends, hardly boring. It can be cheesy and trivial. But overall, it’s been a great forum for communicating with our friends in an informal way that manages to capture that spontaneous feeling of being face to face.
I also fail to see the point about Twitter, and have been meaning to ask someone what the hell it’s all about. I get pretty much the same impression as you, though.
Facebook, while I’ve declined my brother-in-law’s frequent invitations to view his 8 million photos, appeals to folks like him who want to share and trade all that stuff with people geographically far away. I keep photos on my computer and give CDs of them to family members. I’m not really interested in subjecting the rest of the world to them, though.