On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 Bob Hobden wrote:

After what Sacha said a few weeks ago I joined Twitter just to see what
it was about. So far it's totally boring such that I find I hardly look
at it now after just a couple of weeks, the available space for a tweet
is so small there is no meat in any comment, you can't easily follow a
discussion, not that there can be a decent one with such limited space,
nothing like as good or as easy to follow as a Newsgroup.
I might add I also went onto Facebook a couple of years ago and came
off after a few months because that was also boring, mainly mindless
chatter, and I didn't like the default security setting which were
dire, even dangerous for children etc.
Considering the numbers that use them it must be me, what am I missing
with this Social Media?

I, too, have got fed up with them. My daughter persuaded me to join
Facebook a year or more ago so that I could follow the news of her
family. To be honest, I find that a poor substitute for actually
contacting me direct to give me news. I still get alerts for one or two
people that I follow so that I know what's going on but I really do NOT
like to follow what my grandchildren write as mostly they are writing to
their own peers and saying things which I really don't want to know
about.

As for Twitter I've followed one or two people in the past and find what
they write inconsequential. For instance, I'm not interested that the
Rector of my church has just started to read such-and-such a book or
that he's just finished taking a service at church.

I'm not contradicting what Sacha said - there *are* little gems but they
are so few and far between that I personally find it a waste of time to
trawl through the masses of tweets. So, Bob, you're not alone!

David

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David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK