A modern day social outcast has to be anyone who doesn’t text, doesn’t own a smart phone, doesn’t Tweet and more than likely finds, like Betty White, Facebook a colossal waste of time.
So excuse me while I post that last paragraph on the “walls” of my 5,000 Facebook friends. That and I’ll ask them to “like” this blog, which I’m sure at least 3,500 of them will.
What I won’t tell them is how I went totally old school last week and read two magazines. Magazine reading is so tedious.
One magazine was the October 25 issue of The New Yorker, which I hear was once pretty big with the sophisticated crowd. I’m not sophisticated, but I read it anyway.
In an article entitled, “E-Mail Auto-Response” author Martin Marks stated: “ I would like to say that the Internet has become a veritable buzzing, stinging hornet’s nest of pings and pongs and klings and klangs, so please do not e-mail, text message, instant-message, direct-message, Facebook-message (if you’re still on MySpace or Friendster, that’s just plain creepy), Facebook-chat, iChat, tweet, retweet (don’t even mention Twister mentions), StumbleUpon, LinkIn with, zoom into, Goggle Buzz, Plaxify, Jigsaw, Digg, Skype, Spoke, poke, flick or tag me. Don’t boxball, squareball, jingl. Jangl, mingl, mangl, FairShare, Foursquare, twosquare, do-si-do, or swing your laptop round and round. I just want to be left alone.”
