Faced with this enormous peer pressure to conform, to look the part - youthful, care-free, easy-going, in short, a pal, a buddy, the "matey" of all "friends' networks" - and frightened to death by... death, solitude, knee-jerk accusations of being a "communist" nostalgic or worse, a virulent "anti-semite", I caved in and signed up to both these so-called "social utilities"-come-newspeak-shibboleths...
I am now the not-so-proud part of this Big Brother recipe for social networking, staring into the abis of this painfully stupid American invitation to make a fool of myself, when it asks: What's on your mind?
Well, to my mind, in case you were wondering, Peter Goss has a point [see http://techradar.com/news/internet/twitter-s-suggested-follows-draw-criticism-532847].
No wonder even the supposedly high-tech American army banned it; most if not all of my PhD (candidate) colleagues are using it too... same as their high school peers, during admitedly equally boring classes http://ajcann.posterous.com/criticism-about-using-twitter-in-the-classroom
Almost forgot. In case anyone is unfamiliar with the meaning of "twatter", try http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/twatter
Enjoy!
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