All that new fangled print technology
Earlier today I was driving through heavy traffic whilst listening to a ‘celebrity’ interview. The subject turned to social media and all the familiar clichés about people tweeting what they had for breakfast and similar things came tumbling out. I follow over 1700 people of all ages and professions, and so far as I am aware none of them block my feed up with inane accounts of their eating habits. Equally, I feel no compelling need to avoid the medium simply because some people have said actionable things on it. What I have written below is based entirely on what the ‘celebrity’ said, with one or two significant changes.
No, no, I don’t really use books. I’m not that good with the technology actually. Like most people, if I need to open one I try to find a young person to do it for me. I don’t write them, though- definitely not. The reason I don’t is because people have been getting into serious trouble for what they write. They write some silly stuff in them too. After all, who wants to read all about what I am eating through the day? If I want to tell someone else about what I am doing I’ll write them a letter. One of the problems with these book things is that they create the illusion that the people in them are your friends. People are filling their heads with these written ideas when they could be out there meeting real people. Books have undermined the value of friendship.
If you can’t decide whether to laugh or cry, you might as well watch the vide below, and do the former.
