From: team8martinland@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:42:43 +0200, Alfie [UK]  wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 11:18:34 +0100, "StainlessSteelRat"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Alfie [UK] wrote:   
   >>> The Lowest Common Denominator version ends up being 'I am on a bus',   
   >>> 'I just got to work', 'I am having a bar of chocolate', 'I am thinking   
   >>> of talking to the girl in accounts', 'I am sitting on the toilet'.   
   >>   
   >>That's the cynic's stereotype - and I would expect to see it from POD, but   
   >>not from you Alfie - but for someone who has actually used twitter for a few   
   >>months now (and typically these comments come from those that don't), with a   
   >>whole range of friends, the stereotype is perhaps not surprisingly wrong.   
   >   
   > I get like that about new 'fads' because having long been known as   
   > 'the guy that knows about computers' my friends tend to ask me to help   
   > them with such stuff; build computers, fix computers/virii, build web   
   > pages, set up VoIP, RSS feeds, Blogs, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, set   
   > up phones for the web, etc.   
   >   
   > I do not deny that there are good uses for such stuff, it's the   
   > fad'ish nature of people that get's to me, for instance now 'everyone'   
   > has to have Twitter, even if they have no idea what it is or what they   
   > will do with it, but because people are saying it's the new big thing   
   > (Twitter is nearly 3 years old, but has only recently become the   
   > latest craze probably mostly because of press coverage of celebrity   
   > users).   
   >   
   > I'm all for encouraging people to explore new forms of technology, but   
   > the next time someone asks me why I'm not on Facebook or such, I am   
   > going to go postal :)   
      
   *gasp*   
      
   KINSHIP! ;) ;) ;)   
      
   *grab*   
      
   Alfie, it's the same w/ me: Haveing grown up w/ the Commodore 64 and doing   
   interdisciplinary work w/ computers people (related to me) often ask me for   
   some $%&$% computer work. "For you it's nothing. A couple of minutes work."   
   Sure.   
      
   Could it be that the ones really in the know or at least comfortable with   
   technology tend to avoid it personally? (except for the geeks that is ;)   
      
   No cell phone, no TV, no daily newspaper here in Martinland... ;)   
      
   An old C64 running in the da house...   
   Typing this on a ten-year-old notebook bought in NYC...   
      
   )   
      
   Have a better one,   
   ML   
      
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