The Twits may have finally done it. According to a story in today's NYTimes, self-absorbed twitters (tweeters?) enthusiastically exclaiming their current social exploits have prompted follower-backlash. “Enough, Already,” said the Times' headline.
“Twitter users are tiring of it: the sharp pang of envy that comes when someone they are following....is clearly having a better time they they are – right now,” writes The Times.
Don't you feel sorry for the followers? Poor posters, left behind while their fellow twits are twittering around the world. “It feels like high school,” tweeted one journalism professor quoted by The Times. “All the cool kids are at a cool party and I'm home on a Friday night,” she (figuratively) sobbed.
I, tweetless, am delighted at this development. I can't think of a greater waste of time than reporting to the world your every social activity and/or observation. Are there that many people who really care what you're doing at every moment or what you think about this or that?
I understand Twitter and Facebook users may have contributed significantly to organizing some of the recent democratic movements in the Middle East. More power to them. I see that as an effective use of media in shaping local, state or world events.
But I fail to see the contribution of all the inconsequential blather that fills the tweetways. I'm hoping for a fast growth-spurt out of adolescence for the tweeterati.
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