While I do find almost any new technology both interesting and appealing, programs like Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places (which essentially allow everyone to pretend like they are simultaneously both celebrities and the paparazzi that follows them) do nothing to the global intellect and serve no purpose other than to slow down the internet and waste electricity. How many watts of coal-fired energy has been spent on Twitter posts broadcasting that someone is "@Minsky's eating pizza"?
Or as my brother-in-law so succinctly puts it: "Who the hell cares where you are. And who the hell is snobby enough to post up "I'm at First Watch eating pancakes" and think anyone cares?!"
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Friday, 20 August 2010
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