Holy exaggerations, Batman
Published 5/28/07
This is funny. Stowe Boyd and I disagree about the importance of Twitter. On his blog, he wrote a little screed about it, much of which was based on not reading my column thoroughly (as I pointed out in the comments). He also called me ”Idiot,” because in Boyd’s world, anyone who disagrees with you is one.
Anyway, what’s funny is this, in which he claims to “disembowel” me.
I guess in his world, forceful and snide remarks constitute a “disemboweling.” I mine, you need a bit more than just volume and self-importance.
(Heck, if that’s all you need, I’d be disemboweling people left and right. I’m full of volume and self importance!)
lionemom says:
My opinion is right and therefore I am important. BAH! Whatever. I intensely dislike people like that. They know everything and no one else knows anything, unless you agree with them. But even then, THEY came up with the opinion, so THEY are the important one. Go stand in front of a mirror and preen, would ya?!
For my part, I think Twitter is a useless waste of time. If I need to communicate with people, even in a professional setting as some of his commenters suggested, there is cell phone texting and instant messaging. Isn’t that ENOUGH?! Why do we need a micro-blog format in which we could, if we wanted to, describe every action we are taking at any given moment? Not to mention the fact that this sort of “tool” is targeted towards young internet users, aka teenagers, who ARE going to use it to tell their friends they just ate the whole bag of doritos or OMG my hair came out so good this morning, ad infinitum. I guarantee that if you did a cross section of user ages, the majority would be the 13-21 set.
I hate stuff like that. Just more noise in the background to help people not deal with reality.