Is anyone else out there "tweary?" I wonder if new platforms need to be created and offered. If enough of us get "tweary," maybe things will change. Maybe they will have to. Maybe this is a good thing. Boredom is often a prelude to creativity.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tweary
When I first signed up for Facebook and Twitter, I tried. I tried to get into these new ways of communicating. I confess, I lost energy for them. I'm "tweary." Something about them seems to be like milk. In terms of being interesting, they have expiration dates. I know I'm not alone in this, and I think it's something about how they work and how they're designed. It's all those games and lists of things that people with time to kill are interested in. The ability to connect is good, but the mind-numbing power of the trivia should not be underestimated. This principle seems to be true across the internet.
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You are not alone. When Lent began I gave up playing games on the computer. To many this would seem like something that is not a big deal. To people who use computers as much as I - it is. I would fill my time waiting for a file upload, or my email to refresh to play a round of Spider Solitaire; and I would somehow find time to play hearts online. Since that time I have seen all of the ways I can be drawn to play games - bombarded with opportunities to answer trivia questions (game) and to test my IQ (game)etc.
ReplyDeleteI have made a couple of neat re-connections on Facebook, but also have been drawn into other games. I confess that one is one-upmanship. Another is pretty ugly: judging. When I recognized this I stopped accessing FB - now it is very minimal and only a matter of time before I give that up also. I am learning that these distractions and temptations that seem (are?) tailored to draw me in.