MONTHS ago I reported the news that Carolyn, fed up with my hogging the computer all the time, intended to start her own blog. Cue much excitement and nervousness (the excitement was hers, the nervousness mine).
Anyway, eight months later and there’s still no sign of it and I think it’s fair to assume she’s bottled it. So instead, having vehemently refused to join Facebook, Carolyn actually has a Twitter account!
She says she didn’t want to feel pressured into writing blog posts more often than she felt like it, but she’s already feeling the tyranny of Twitter.
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Monday 26 January 2009 at 1:32 pm
Very odd, this Twitter. It’s like you are inviting stalkers who are carefully selected by their obsession with minutiae and an overly developed interest in your movements.Plus it makes everyone sound so dull.
Even Jesus would sound tedious on Twitter:
“Fed Five Thousand. Some fish left over. vegans complaining.” (2 hours ago)
“Healed bloke with embarrassing warts. seemed grateful, but understandably quiet about it.” (3 hours ago)
“At friend’s wedding. Wine tastes like shite. Must do something about it” (4 hours ago)
Monday 26 January 2009 at 2:15 pm
“She’s bottled it”
Some men never learn…do they, Caroline? Serve him right if you give him hell for this
Monday 26 January 2009 at 7:31 pm
Let it find its own level. My best to your missus. Please tell her that I am a much more interesting man than you are.
Monday 26 January 2009 at 11:41 pm
@Jim Baxter
You’re more interesting than a man who not only wears, but admits to wearing, Dalek slippers that say: “Exterminate” when he moves? (Twitter/tomharris1964 1:30pm Jan 14th.)
Respect!
Tuesday 27 January 2009 at 11:09 pm
I’m technophobic (or at least it’s my excuse for being ‘of a certain age’ and computer illiterate) and I take my hat off to anyone who blogs. Seems to me that, the more successful your blog is, the more of a tyranny it is.
LabourList shouldn’t be suffering from stress, then.
I watched John Prescott being interviewed on ‘The Politics Show’ about his new blog. His excitement and naivete were rather endearing… until I remembered that this man had held a powerful position and could influence the lives of millions, and my heart turned to stone.