As any bird will tell you.....

there is a life from a different point of view.

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The word on the Tweet is that blogging is like twittering. I take exception to that statement because bloggers can write at-infinitum, and about things that are actually interesting. Unlike the tweet that is restricted, and the (cough-cough) subject matter that is usually at-nausea. 

Let’s just set aside the Blog thing for a moment.

In this new century, instead of communicating around the dinner table, it appears that there are new ways to communicate blah. Chatter, it seems, can be had for a mere 140 characters per tweet. It is not yet clear to this writer, if the twittering classes of today are direct descendants of their chattering ancestors, or if there is an entirely new breed of species.

From the 1950s comfortably through the 1970s, we, the chattering kind, articulated words in an attempt to improve society. We actually talked with family and friends. Hearing the words instead of reading them. Now, it seems, typing self indulgent, self opinionated comments replete with narcissistic undertones of what a person is doing at the time he is doing it, is par-for-the-course.  

What’s worrisome about this is that the tweet appears to be an accepted mode of communication.  

News Flash!!

Tweeting is not communicating.

 Communicating is an exchange of information….

tweeting, as any bird will tell you, eventually gets annoying.

Personally, I just don’t get the whole Tweet thing.  And, maybe all I’ll ever be is just a Chattering ancestor who favors the more conventional aspect of contact. Having said this, what planet do these twittering classes live on, anyway?  The ones who have to relay a constant barrage-of-oxygen-sucking, thumb-numbing, ego-centric sequence of events to the world at large.

Really?

Here’s a hint: you’re not that interesting.  Get a Blog!

Oh wait…..you’re not that interesting.

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