Dear
Sir or Madam...
 Not
so very long ago if
you wanted to share an interesting web site or an amusing
story
or pictures of your kids you
sent them along via the truly revolutionary means
of email. It
was fast, it was cool, and it was specific. When you
sent a dead baby joke to uncle Mel you knew uncle
Mel was going to read it... eventually.
Somewhere along the way email lost its panache. Although all those crappy
animated email icons may have had something to do with it I think the primary
cause was
the
daily flood
of
spam that
made
opening
our
various
email clients
a
dreaded
chore.
Now
we
prefer to post
the
same
sorts
of diversions
to Twitter
or
Facebook
and
simply
hope
that our
friends and relations somehow manage to find them before they scroll
off the page.
I recently had a relative post a family event on Facebook, a posting I happened
to
stumble
upon
mere days after it was over. Luckily it didn't involve the posting of bail or
the giving of blood.
This is not social media, folks. This is anti-social media.
Be honest... when you're scrolling down your wall in Facebook do you really give
a shit about Ted What's-His-Name-You-Barely-Knew-In-High-School's 1,437 photo
slide-show
of his visit to Cleveland?
Well, Facebook and Twitter are 99% Ted or Ted-like substances. And let's not
even
broach the subject of <shudder> Farmville or Mafia Wars.
I may sound like old Mr. Fuddy-Duddy here but Facebook
and Twitter will both eventually lose favor and be replaced by something much
more
shiny and scintillating. I guarantee that years from now you'll look back and
be
ever-so-be
slightly
embarrassed
that
you
ever
used
a novelty system that limited your input to 140 characters. Or willingly gave
all your most private information to a site that subsequently shared it with
government,
both
foreign and domestic, for profit. Even texting will someday, in retrospect, seem
puzzlingly
bizarre.
If you disagree with this opinion please don't send me an email. I got enough
problems.
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As for today's cartoon... if anyone thinks I'm simply being
partisan (which I am, thank you, but that's not always a bad thing) then you
should read what Congressional Democrats are saying about the GOP actively sabotaging
the economy for political gain.
=Lefty=
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Republican Job Creation Update
 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #64 in a list of Republican
job creation activities
since they gained control of the House in 2011. None,
sad to
say,
have
yet to result in one, single new job.
(64) 8-10-2011: The GOP is proposing something called
the REINS
act which essentially gets rid of safety inspectors.
So less jobs and more poison in your children's food.
It's win-win, uh, lose-lose, uh, whatever!
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