Why Are You Interested in Twitter.Com?

When I watch the president's address to Congress, I did notice that some members were not exactly paying attention to the president. I was kind of mad when noticing this, because it is critical at this moment in history to pay attention to the president. But still, some congresspeople just weren't paying attention. It made me extremely angry with our elected employees.

It turns out that many of them were focusing on updating their "tweets" on Twitter.com using their Blackberrys. Why? Because they felt that people would actually be interested in what they were doing during the presidential address. Well, it was clear what they were doing and it wasn't their jobs. Perhaps Congress should pass a decorum law for members of the House and Senate to actually pay attention and do their jobs while in the respective chambers.

And it makes me wonder about the larger issue that Twitter creates: why do we all need to know about each other's business now? Remember privacy? I do. I used to be able to go in my room, grab a book and not have to worry about people wondering what I was doing. Nobody would be interested in my boring life and I sure wasn't going to tell anybody about it.

Twitter has turned the "need-to-know" age into a farce now. What could be so important about your life that you have to update your tweet every second you do something new. Nobody has a life that's that interesting. I'm sorry, but it's true, and I believe it absurd that our need for constant reality has come this far. When you're checking out other peoples' lives and updating people on your's, you're missing the opportunity to do something worthwhile.

You'll feel better once you get everybody out of your business. We all just need to lead our own lives and stop worrying about everybody else. One day you're telling people how your medical treatments went and the next day that will be boring. Pretty soon, you'll not have anything to tell anybody and your existence will become really boring.

Our society is too interested in other peoples' lives, period. From television to our own lives now, everybody is interested. Well, they shouldn't be, because everybody is boring. Even politicians and celebrities are boring people. Stop using things like Twitter and other technologies like it and just live your lives. And if somebody asks you what's going on in your life, just give them a polite, "it's none of your business."