Re: Twitter dead?/ onlinecaroline.com

You know Chris, this business of presence-sharing just bemuses me. I mean, to put it bluntly, who gives a flying f**k what others are doing in their sad little lives. I know the youngsters go for it, let's face it "Big Brother" is evidence of that voyeuristic tendency gone rampant - me, I just don't get it. What's the point of watching those morons make prats of themselves and build them up into heroes? It's the "15 minutes of fame" bit gone mad.

And it continues. I recall way back,.those Japanese substitute toys that wet themselves, demanded cuddling from those kids that couldn't have a real pet. On that level, I didn't have a problem, but where it got very sinister was when the blasted thing instilled a level of dependency in its owners - I found that spooky.

Now comes another development, which, I suppose is an extension of the presence-sharing thing, except now, it's not even a real person, it's a virtual one. I found out about it from BBC's technology programme "Click" and, amusingly enough, the site name is "onlinecaroline.com". Now Chris, it's not another outlet for mattress Caroline, this is a virtual friend that you sign up for and then she'll send you messages based on your preferences. Why??????????????????????????????????????????

I don't get it.

Alan

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----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher England
To: Anorak Nation
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Anorak Nation] Twitter dead?

Neil Gates <(Address removed)> said:
Twitter is total non-sense another digital service about to bite the
dust due to a massive lack of consumer demand.
You have to remember that micro-blogging and presence-sharing seems pointless and crazy to a lot of older stick-in-the-mud folk today who have only just mastered email (Meanwhile kids no longer use email, just micro-blogging and instant messaging as the Ofcom findings pointed out). I'm reminded of the 1960s when the older stick-in-the-mud types couldn't see the point or purpose of ships in the North Sea playing all that racket and thought it was all going to just be a pointless flash in the pan. They were wrong weren't they.
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