On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:27:34 -0700, Annette Taylor wrote: >Social networking and twittering are dying? Dang! I was just getting the hang >of it. I finally figured out how to delete all those couple hundred people I >have no clue who they are but wanted to be my friends on facebook, so I let >them.....
Well, they might not be dying but they're not at all well. Some internet phenomena, such as AOL as an internet service, survive as zombies until someone mercifully puts them out of their misery. For a list of techie things that are either dead or on life support or zombies, consider the following list: http://www.esarcasm.com/3513/casualties-of-tech-40-activities-made-obsolete/ Some of these things may be prematurely declared dead (e.g., running out of hard drive space) but others have already been turned into soylent green (e.g., "Having to be 18 to get porn"). How many people still use floppy disks? And what size (3.5 inch? 5.25 inch? 8 inch?)? Okay, let's do a little test: How many still have a calculator watch? Did you ever have one (points lost if you got your graduate degree in experimental psychology and never had one of these things). Anyone still using a rotary phone? Anyone still using Wordstar for wordprocessing? Okay, here's the big one, how many of you: |40. Interacting socially while giving someone your undivided attention | Status: showing signs of illness |Oh, come on - talking without simultaneously texting or tweeting is so 2008. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
