You know a website/net technology’s coolness has finally died when you see it reported on the nightly news. After that every one you know and your mum now uses it.
This very thing happened to me with Facebook and now its happening again with Twitter.
I totally blame celebrities for this whole mess namely Ashton Kutcher. Celebrities did made twitter more interesting for me once I got past the honeymoon period of “oh cooles I posted on the Twitter!” but now they are alerting news services of all kinds to report on the current buzz which is Twitter.
This isn’t cool, I signed up to Twitter towards the end of last year when it was a lot smaller therefore greatly cooler. I was blogging but found I didn’t want to post every little thought as it would take up too much time. Twitter helped me solve that problem by limiting posts to 140 characters. I had a nice warm feeling posting updates and knowing I was being a rather large net nerd at the same time.
Now that feeling is gone, yanked from me by half arsed tech writers who couldn’t think of another freaking second life related story. Noooo, now the stupid news paper writers are all about the Twitter, “oh Ashton Kutcher just posted something funny!, “Hugh Jackman called the opera house the opera centre” oh noes!
I think my girlfriend Melody feels very much the same way I do about Twitter as she does about the Twilight series. She read the books years ago and had to order them from America to read them, now her favorite series is a fad for stupid sheep like teenage girls, much like Twitter.
Well screw you mainstream media (Find something else to report about!) and screw you Kutcher.*
Fads suck!
*I’m so not being serious.
