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03/17/2009: "Keeping the masses occupied with trivia"
Like every other grown person in America, I have too many responsibilities and not enough timeā"work, husband, kid, friends, chores and so on and so on - I barely have enough time to play Scramble on Facebook, never mind catch up on my incessant chats. And I am now officially as bad at returning e-mails as I am at returning letters. I can't even return phone calls regularly, and my AIM has been blinking since last Thursday, so how am I going to find the time to tweet? Do I really need to carve time out of my day to tweet my craving for pomegranate juice? Though it may not be immediately apparent, it does take a fair amount of thinking to write these pieces, and it's nearly impossible to work and read or respond to the 20-25 tweets my Aunt Raquel sends every day. I think social networking is going to make us stupid. We're not giving ourselves any downtime to just use our brains, for reflection, fantasizing, problem-solving, whatever. Why are we Twittering when we should be figuring out what to do with all that space junk floating around in orbit?
[ The Devil finds work for idle hands to do. Now the government doesn't have to worry if we are not working every hour of the day. People get so caught up in trivial wastes of time that demand regular interaction that they are never going to cause the establishment much trouble. ]
http://www.newsweek.com/id/189657?from=rss