Heard on the Today Programme this morning: a weedy article on social networking sites – done in the usual heavy-handed and jokey way that older people use to cover topics that only the young are comfortable with. John Humphreys mentioned Faceback in his intro to the piece – which got me thinking about silly names for such sites. Squitter and Bubo come to mind. One a site for mindless textual diarrhoea, and the other for teenagers to squeeze their virtual spots in front of the cybermirror.
There was me thinking that we had developed brains and speech to filter out the stream of consciousness into something approaching coherence – and there goes Twitter encouraging us to spew it all out regardless. How annoying is that?
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You were awake earlier than me, then, I was still coming to when I heard this pointless piece. I had thought that perhaps not being fully compos mentis might have caused me to miss some vital point, so it's comforting to know that, actually, it was handled rather poorly. Shame, Humphreys used to be such an incisive journo. Or maybe that's just nostalgia creeping in and I'm missing Nick Clarke.