Shredded tweet..

The Colonel and I were talking today about Twitter.

As I've written before, social networking leaves me cold - as in with fear. I just don't like my business all out there for anyone to read. Like the poor guy who Twittered saying he was away from home and returned to find his house had been burgled. And call me apathetic, call me self-absorbed; but I honestly don't care about what other people are doing every minute of their day.

What is true is that most of our daily lives is singularly uninteresting to anyone except ourselves. I did surf onto someone blog that had their Twitter feed. After riveting posts like, "Just went to kitchen. Still nothing in frig." and, "I hate getting up for a wrong number on the phone." I was more perplexed than ever.

So why is Twitter such a hot thing right now?

I think because people are afraid they'll miss something. It's human nature. Take for an illustration the man who put a mini camera on his cat's collar certain that after he left the house each day the feline lived some sort of wild and crazy cat life. After getting home and checking the images he realized something profound:

All the cat did was sleep. It did nothing exciting at all.

So he had done that effort.. and waiting.. for nothing.

Twitterers take note.

- Farmer Ted