Well well, the promise of more posts didn't quite come to fruition this week. Never mind, there's always next week. As it happens one can but wonder if traditional blogging is dying out to be replaced by other entities such as Facebook and Twitter.
On that point I am now on Facebook and on Twitter.......I joined Facebook last year when we went through a raft of redundancies as it seemed a quick and simple method of keeping in touch with people. At first iIreally didn't get it ...possibly like most ...ahem...40-somethings......probably due to the fact that like most of these new Web 2.0 technologies they're not aimed at my age group. They seem strictly designed for teenage and 20-something serial texters and people of a certain youthful age who seem more at home communicating through electronic or internet mediums than face to face. Let's be honest teenagers will text people they're sitting next to rather than speak to them. But is that so different from the email culture? I work in an office where people will email the person next to them to ask them if they want to go for a coffee. If you'd have explained that to someone even 10 years ago that would have sounded ludicrous.
But with hindsight, this is exactly the reaction from my generation with regard to Facebook and Twitter and having now signed up to and used both, i wonder why we're so reticent and dismissive. Stephen Fry, a hero of mine (first on the fantasy dinner party list) is a fervent Twitterer and to date has about 390,000 'followers'. Why is this? Is it another example of our celebrity obsessed society? Well, Stephen Fry is hardly the usual celebrity fodder, in fact he's a normal 50-something bloke with a bloke-ish passion for technology and gadgets. I would surmise that having a large number of followers is more akin to the fact that he is genuinely interesting (more than Quite Interesting) and amusing.
Like most things it also takes the 40-something generation to adopt something for it to really take off. We write better stuff, we eventually see the benefit and then we make it work better. And the younger generations, as is their wont, flitter off to pastures new. It just begs the question why these bright ideas are always aimed primarily at 'yoof' culture rather than tapping into the vast experience of us oldies who rally know how to exploit the technologies.
'Tis the way of the new world I guess.
Some crap Friday jokes.......
Here's my nomination for 'Protester of the Year' Award....outside my local school there is a lady who every weekday morning and afternoon protesting. She dresses in bright yellow and holds up a small placard that says 'Stop Children'. That's real dedication to the cause and she deserves recognition.
Christianity; One woman's lie about having an affair that got seriously out of hand?
Apparently clumsy people are more likely to be obese. That's because they keep walking into things. Like MacDonalds.
Is Welsh a language that was invented by someone who was just shit at Scrabble?
On that point I am now on Facebook and on Twitter.......I joined Facebook last year when we went through a raft of redundancies as it seemed a quick and simple method of keeping in touch with people. At first iIreally didn't get it ...possibly like most ...ahem...40-somethings......probably due to the fact that like most of these new Web 2.0 technologies they're not aimed at my age group. They seem strictly designed for teenage and 20-something serial texters and people of a certain youthful age who seem more at home communicating through electronic or internet mediums than face to face. Let's be honest teenagers will text people they're sitting next to rather than speak to them. But is that so different from the email culture? I work in an office where people will email the person next to them to ask them if they want to go for a coffee. If you'd have explained that to someone even 10 years ago that would have sounded ludicrous.
But with hindsight, this is exactly the reaction from my generation with regard to Facebook and Twitter and having now signed up to and used both, i wonder why we're so reticent and dismissive. Stephen Fry, a hero of mine (first on the fantasy dinner party list) is a fervent Twitterer and to date has about 390,000 'followers'. Why is this? Is it another example of our celebrity obsessed society? Well, Stephen Fry is hardly the usual celebrity fodder, in fact he's a normal 50-something bloke with a bloke-ish passion for technology and gadgets. I would surmise that having a large number of followers is more akin to the fact that he is genuinely interesting (more than Quite Interesting) and amusing.
Like most things it also takes the 40-something generation to adopt something for it to really take off. We write better stuff, we eventually see the benefit and then we make it work better. And the younger generations, as is their wont, flitter off to pastures new. It just begs the question why these bright ideas are always aimed primarily at 'yoof' culture rather than tapping into the vast experience of us oldies who rally know how to exploit the technologies.
'Tis the way of the new world I guess.
Some crap Friday jokes.......
Here's my nomination for 'Protester of the Year' Award....outside my local school there is a lady who every weekday morning and afternoon protesting. She dresses in bright yellow and holds up a small placard that says 'Stop Children'. That's real dedication to the cause and she deserves recognition.
Christianity; One woman's lie about having an affair that got seriously out of hand?
Apparently clumsy people are more likely to be obese. That's because they keep walking into things. Like MacDonalds.
Is Welsh a language that was invented by someone who was just shit at Scrabble?
Later, GJ
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