I don’t disagree with you entirely about social media. I’ve said that it can be empowering but many people can become a slave to it as well.

As for your thoughts on Twitter, I am going to have to strongly disagree with your assessment of what it is like and what people can get from it. It’s far more useful than Facebook and I’ve made real friends using it. See my last post regarding that.

Thanks for the comment!

Heck, I enjoy facebook and linkedin as much as the next guy, not necessarily in that order — but my “who cares?” is more a broad commentary on the hypocritical social networking craze where individuals become increasingly introverted and dependent on technology to fulfill their needs for socializing versus actual face- or at least telephone-time to catch up with their “closest” friends. And soon Skype may eliminate that need altogether, heaven forbid!

I don’t do Twitter as (from what I’ve seen) it’s even more self-serving than the aforementioned sites. Does this world seriously hinge on incessant distraction for such mundane updates from people they hardly know, if at all, announcing every few minutes they’re bored, hungry, reading so-and-so’s latest self-serving blog, “working” (?! psh! hardly!!) or otherwise?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the leader in this downward spiral is 4square. “Look where I am, world!” It’s not bad enough you’ll share a picture and document your every movement from your destination, now you can give us a map, too? Thanks for the heads up, I may go put an end to it personally.

That’s just the 2 cents I could spare. Real work to get back to. Ha ha.