TWITter - Couldn't have chosen a more appropriate name!

Twitter - - what a profound idea... hundreds of thousands of people blasting useless information to everyone in their address books! Yaaaaahhh! And I thought blogs were bad.

The New York Times called Twitter "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet," TIME Magazine said that "Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app," and Newsweek wrote "Suddenly, it seems as though all the world's a-twitter." A-twitter... hmmm, I couldn't agree more. I cannot believe that everyone in any one's email address book could really give a rat's ass that you are sitting at a bus stop waiting to head in to work and can't figure out which movie to rent tonight!

Is this just one more way to feel 'connected'? Forget religion as the opiate for the masses... we've got technology to do it better and faster... talk about immediate gratification! What ever happened to good old face to face meetings? Or just push that 'other' button on your mobile device and 'gasp' call someone and have a real life live conversation! There is a reason for the popularity and longevity of the saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder.' Even if I really like you, if you are in my face 24/7, 365 days a year I'm not going to feel the need to seek you out... unless it is to hit you with a brick to stop filling my inbox with the mundane details of your life. I don't even want to know that level of detail in the life of my immediate family. Ever wonder about the staying power of the saying "familiarity breeds contempt"?

Hey, if something momentous occurs or if you need my help, I'm there for you, but if you are having trouble figuring out why Burger King got rid of the King in their commercials... keep it to yourself! It might be funny after we've knocked back half a dozen beers at the bar... but that is where it belongs... not in my in-box at work at ten in the morning. Don't insult me by sending me some generic, short-schrift message you blast to everyone. All you are doing is sending everyone you know a short-hand equivilant of that 'Fruit Cake' of Holiday cards... the annual review family newsletter.

The next killer app... yeah, if you mean 'killer' in the sense of destroying meaningful human interaction! In my book, that name says it all... the application: Twitter... those who use it to vomit the minutia of their lives: Twits.