Nobody asked me, but … (#52)
May 27th, 2009 Al KalterA lack of sunshine in the Sunshine State, a wedding in the Andes, a championship in Foxboro … Today’s post will touch on a variety of unrelated topics. Come along for the ride, if you like.
The Premier Development and Runtime Environment for Business Application Software
Nobody asked me, but … (#51)
May 8th, 2009 Al KalterOK, I’ll admit it. I just don’t get the fascination with Facebook and Twitter. If that officially makes me an old fart, so be it. But I just can’t figure out why people want to know that someone else has a headache today, or that they are in the midst of some mundane activity that is so non-essential that there is time to tell anyone interested exactly what it is that they are doing. Have we become that narcissistic that we believe people care about that stuff? Does it make a headache any less painful to share news of it with acquaintances in cyberspace, so that someone else can reply, “Poor baby. How about an electronic hug (or an electronic aspirin)?” Like I said, I just don’t get it.