Comments on: Please Don’t Drag Me Into Your Life

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:32:05 +0000

Lighten up, Virgina. You’re saying I should follow this STRANGER and allow my Twitter stream to be filled with the tragic updates of her mother’s impending death? Why on earth would I want to do that? Who benefits? As far as I can see, no one does.

What do you mean by “turn off your gadget”? What the hell are you talking about? I don’t play video games — never said I did. Twitter is about the limit of my time-wasting abilities.

And don’t tell me about NYC culture. I lived there, I know it. And I can clearly see you’re clueless about what a yuppie is.

Seriously, you can take your angry, disjointed rants elsewhere; they’ll only get laughed at or deleted here. Give it a rest.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:16:44 +0000

Yes the person may be a little screwed up, but have a heart, all of you.. you can turn off your gadget for a minute, right? If someone’s real life situation is too much of a bummer, you could always: play a video game.. Kind of like the financial world, when the idea of what real people might be going through becomes too much, take what you can and run.. we used to call people like you YUPPIES, and this mindset is what killed New York City culture..

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:01:38 +0000

I’m not on Twitter, but I’ve seen some of the conversations. One example was the day the plane landed in the Hudson. I saw a whole string of Twitter conversations about the topic. 75% of the messages were “Isn’t Twitter Great.” I looked at a string today about Iphones, and someone twitted “My cat is snoring.”

I heard on the news the other day, that a women was in a bank as it was being robbed. Instead of calling the police during the robbery, she twitted “I’m in a bank that’s getting robbed.” She didn’t even mention which bank.

I feel sorry for this woman who’s mother is about to die, but pick up a phone and talk to a friend. That will help her out emotionally a lot better.

I also feel that for some people, (Not all), twitter is nothing more then the latest thing to do, and if you ain’t doing it, you’re nobody. So keep that twitter close to you at all times. You might have something to twit about. “Isn’t twitter great.”

By: Markk

Markk — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:57:49 +0000

I think people just look for a way to cope with a situation they are un-familiar with… it was probably because it was in hand… I agree with you 100% on the Twitter thing. As you know, I have a whopping 6 follower’s maybe? I follow…about a dozen…

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:53:36 +0000

Jonathan: You’re right, of course. I’m just so cynical.

It also has a lot to do with my Twitter and social networking philosophy. I don’t care how many follow me. It becomes meaningless when the signal to noise ratio gets too high. I think it’s a total waste of time to put so much effort into collecting followers I don’t reciprocate — unless the new follower is someone who seems interesting, someone I’d want to tune into. The health problems of a stranger’s mother wasn’t something I’d voluntarily tune into.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:21:52 +0000

I guess there’s an off chance her mother was asleep and this woman couldn’t sleep, but was still at the hospital. So to kill some time she’s surfing around the net maybe? I mean, we’ve all surfed aimlessly in the midnight and early hours right?

Maybe she just needed a relief from all the drama and she was using the net as an outlet. Look at it this way, at least she found your content interesting enough to add you right? Or maybe she was just one of those people looking for an automatic reciprocal follow.

My random $.02.