Alan Milewczyk <...> said:

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 hate to say this but at the beginning it was 'interesting' watching well -known radio people telling the world what they were up to. I'd see which global conferences they were attending, and get a feel for what 'important' things they were up to and in to. I'd even learn when they'd bought their iPhones, etc., and what applications they as iSheep were trying out.

Then, this just degenerated into whether or not they were feeding the cat, beating the wife, having a curry, or where they were for their nightly ritual of getting drunk. It was after a few months of this that I indeed thought "What the feck am I reading all this for?" and unsubscribed from the (then) live twitter-texts from them all. Nowadays, now and again, I'll go to the Twitter site and speed read what they're up to / been up to instead!

Until they cancelled it, Twitter was still useful to me as the provider of texts carrying breaking news updates from the BBC, even from radiotoday.co.uk and mediauk.com, and weather updates, etc., so, for me, it had a purpose – the free passing on of news and information. I also use it not to tell people which bollock I'm currently scratching, but I tend to put questions 'out there' like 'Is it me or is Facebook down?' or that sort of thing, so it has a function and purpose rather than telling the world the pointless stuff.

"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.

Ha ha. It sounds more like a porn service. I'll give it a go!