So I'm not sure where I left off, but I've been at Springfield HS for over a decade (gasp!), I have four kids (gasp!) all four and under, and I don't think I would change much.
I live outside of Philly, no different than any other year of my life, except my wonderful home is a twin, and I live in a town where people hang NASCAR flags.
My own property remains flagless.
Writing messages in Facebook is tricky for me b/c I'm looking at all the 'I's in this message, and shame is washing over me. Maybe it's because I think that my blog is my all about me place.
And then there's Twitter.
I'm going through some sort of tech crisis, and to make matters worse, the anchor on the local news just directed viewers to look at his blog.
And now there's a story about Twitter!
On Facebook, we can write as much as we want. On Twitter, we're limited to 140 characters. There's something dystopian about all of this, as I think the next app will, in true Orwellian style, truncate our language even more.
They'll release Sputr, and we'll be limited to 100 characters.
Then, in about a year, KerTale will invite us to express ourselves in 70 characters.
And the eradication of our text-based communication will be complete in 2011 when our 6" Dell Mini computers come equipped with a direct link to '?'
And the question won't be 'what are you doing?', but 'what can you say?' in four words.
1 comment:
this is genius. however, my contention is that our texting, facebooking, and all around twittering (tweeting) has fostered a love affair with the written word, a resurgence, if you will. though it may be truncated, as you predicted, it has become a world where people write more than they speak, has it not?
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