You're so vain, you probably think this blog is about you
I should be the last person to write about this, but the internet age has really brought out the most vain among us.
Social networking sites such as Facebook, Bebo, Myspace and Twitter are the playgrounds for those who are self-centred and big-headed, with some of them featuring the most mundane and useless of updates. For instance, "[Insert name here] has just woken up", "[Insert name here] is tired", "[Insert name here] is eating breakfast". Who the hell cares? I certainly don't.
One of the most followed 'people' on Twitter is a cat. Yes, a cat. Are we that voyeuristic in our tendencies that we want to read about a cat catching prey? The sad answer is yes, otherwise this cat that happens to be technologically-savvy would not be an internet superstar.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife, Sarah Brown, is also a bit of a Twitter star. Now, anyone expecting interesting updates that may be of some substance from Mrs. Brown will be disappointed to know that she tweets about strawberries sprouting in her garden and about fetching her children from school. Who cares? Other moms, perhaps, but certainly not anyone under the age of 40 with a semblance of a social life.
Arty hip-hopper Erykah Badu and her latest baby daddy (it's hard to keep up with her) tweeted endlessly about the birth of their child. The updates were a bit too informative, if you ask me (do you really want to know that the baby's head is coming out of its mommy's vagina? Uhm... I hope not).
Now everyone can be a pseudo-celebrity online, maybe even me.
I might even begin to like this internet fame thing.
Social networking sites such as Facebook, Bebo, Myspace and Twitter are the playgrounds for those who are self-centred and big-headed, with some of them featuring the most mundane and useless of updates. For instance, "[Insert name here] has just woken up", "[Insert name here] is tired", "[Insert name here] is eating breakfast". Who the hell cares? I certainly don't.
One of the most followed 'people' on Twitter is a cat. Yes, a cat. Are we that voyeuristic in our tendencies that we want to read about a cat catching prey? The sad answer is yes, otherwise this cat that happens to be technologically-savvy would not be an internet superstar.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife, Sarah Brown, is also a bit of a Twitter star. Now, anyone expecting interesting updates that may be of some substance from Mrs. Brown will be disappointed to know that she tweets about strawberries sprouting in her garden and about fetching her children from school. Who cares? Other moms, perhaps, but certainly not anyone under the age of 40 with a semblance of a social life.
Arty hip-hopper Erykah Badu and her latest baby daddy (it's hard to keep up with her) tweeted endlessly about the birth of their child. The updates were a bit too informative, if you ask me (do you really want to know that the baby's head is coming out of its mommy's vagina? Uhm... I hope not).
Now everyone can be a pseudo-celebrity online, maybe even me.
I might even begin to like this internet fame thing.
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