MC Hammer, Twitter on Good Morning America

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  Joe E S

  02/28/09 | Report as spam

  RE: MC Hammer, Twitter on Good Morning America

  This is another addiction to personal communication media that we don't need to foster as a social habit. It's bad enough with the growing habit of constant social texting, but to think that you could be in a meeting and split your attention to what I am presenting to sending out comments to the same people in that meeting, or oiutside that meeting, is unacceptable and rude.
  
  People want it both ways. On one hand, they decry the growing invasive information gathering industry and the files that are kept on us. They fear identity theft and the amount of personal information that government and marketing agencies have on us. On the other hand, these same people have no problem in releasing the same information to people they don't even know.
  
  Hey, why not tell me you are at the gym for the next hour so I can break into your house and steal stuff? Make it easier for me to know everything you do or think so I can stalk you. Tell me more about your family, your personal life, and what you like or don't like so that I put the pieces together to steal your identity!
  
  When did it become fashionable that people think that they are so important that they have to broadcast every aspect of your personal and daily life to anyone without checking who they are or asking if we really care?
  
  For some reason, people are afraid to be alone or private because they are not just happy with moments of "aloneness." They feel that if they are not social networking all the time, then they are insignificant. The excuse that this is necessary to "keep in touch" with what is important, or remove "middle man" barriers, keep up with what is trendy, is just bogus. Twitter is just a symptom of a self-centered assumption that some people think they are the center of the universe, and that now they have the technology to force that on everyone else just to gain self-validation.
  
  It amazes me how willing we are to buy any device from communication technology companies today, and justify it by diminishing the value of our personal life, our privacy, and the respect we have for those things with other people.
  

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  crodgers

  03/02/09 | Report as spam

  RE: MC Hammer, Twitter on Good Morning America

  Thanks, Joe E S you have saved me from writing my opinion because it very much mirrors yours! People give me a break, I really couldn't care less if you are at the Gym or the GYN for that matter!