Monday, February 23, 2009
What's the deal with Blogging, Twitter, and 25 Random Things About Me?
From the title of my blog you may assume that I'm about to go into a Jerry Seinfeld-esq comic bit about blogging and all other manner of sources of random (and often useless) bits of information that comes out of people's heads. Instead I'm going to write a bunch of stuff that may be loosely connected to highlight the problem that many of these technologies have created. The internet has improved people's lives in many ways such as providing current events immediately from around the world, real-time stock quotes, and funny videos about kittens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU). The problem is most people use blogs and the other ilk to spew bits of information that are so trivial and in most cases stupid (my blog is included in this analysis) that it destroys the usefulness of these technologies. Why on Earth would I need to know that someone is going to the grocery store or the reason they don't like the color orange. The 25 Random Facts about you is the peak of absolute stupidity. It is reflection of our society that people feel the urge to disclose surprisingly private facts about themselves to the world.
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Well put about the "trivial" aspects of blogs. Throw mine in the mix too. While some serve a purpose I agree others, which tend to be the majority, are useless. As for facebook, I was hung up on the issue with the 25 random facts. I don't see the big deal, it's just a mode of posting so one doesn't have to change their status 25 times, they can give it to you all at once. The underlying idea behind blogs is information, and this goes for facebook as well. It's simply a network and I think Brett nailed it in saying that there are quite a few things, 25 Random Facts included, that are on facebook that people just simply choose to ignore and leave it as a networking or keeping-in-touch tool. I sometimes wonder if that guy was giving push back against facebook because he doesn't have any friends.
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