I am learning to be a bit more thoughtful and clear with my blogosphere. But I do find the world funny most of the time.
I saw Demi Moore on the Jay Leno show this last week. She has had some surgery on her face. I could hardly recognize her. She reported she tweets. She has 2.6 million people she tweets to. If you don’t know what Twitter is I am too distracted today to explain it.
I have a Twitter account. I used it twice. And after that it just seemed silly to me. I think it is one of those things that when we all wake up from the great tweet addiction we will look back and say, “What in the world did we do that for.”
The whole idea to me points out two things. One, how badly people need to connect. Two, how low we have dropped the hurdle for what counts as a connection.
I got a tweet (from one of three I am signed up for) last week stating, “I am brushing my teeth with new teeth-whitening toothpaste.” It sounds like a great marketing scheme by P & G but why do I need to know about his toothpaste.
I did get a helpful one from another church leader who tweets. He reported on three books he had read and their value to him. Now that was good.
By the time I do this blog and keep up with Facebook I am connected out. I will never Tweet. Neither will I text. Its not that I am too cool to do either. It’s that I broke my wrist and thumb on my left hand a few years ago and the tendon did not really reconnect that well. And I suffer quit a bit of pain when I text. So I am out.
I just wonder what happens to someone who thinks they are that interesting?
I spoke a few weeks ago on the sin of “selfish ambition” mentioned in Galatians 5. I found this quote by Len Sweet in Soul Tsunami:
“Attention is the most precious commodity of the future.”
Talk about prophetic. Twitter, FaceBook, My Space, eHarmony, ad nauseum. It’s all the story (and promotion) of the “me.”