People are like sheep and have no brain. Granted, not all otherwise I would be one of them. But you can find all these sheep people loitering in one place: on twitter. What a bunch of twits they are. Maybe you understood by now that this post is not going to be about the praises of Twitter.
Can anyone tell me what is the attraction of Twitter? People just post random, stupid and useless short messages: I am eating a sandwich, just bought this or that, feeling bored now. No wonder they feel bored if they rely on Twitter to entertain themselves.
Contribution of Twitter?
What is the contribution of Twitter to society? What can we gain from it? I struggle to find answers. Someone can disseminate their message quickly and efficiently to the general public. But is there anything worth saying that will interest most people and in such few words? If it’s just a small group of people, why not just email them? Most people won’t find anything you have to say interesting, unless you do or you are someone famous.
Followers follow me
Enter Sarah Brown and Britney Spears, famous tweeters. Sarah Brown, as the wife of the previous UK Prime Minister, got a large number of ‘followers’ as they are called. What has she done? Hello, she is NOT the Prime Minister. And who cares if she is drinking wine or not? Well, it seems many people care. Get a life, you sad people.
How about Britney Spears? She’s supposed to be good at music, isn’t she? Well why not just give her a microphone or buy her CD? She’s not going to sing on Twitter, is she?
Recently there was an article in the news, the more conventional type, about how some celebrity followed a ‘normal’ guy from the UK whose few tweets were about cleaning his cupboard. Overnight, that ‘normal’ fellow became a celebrity on Twitter and gathered a large number of followers. What, just because he had a celebrity following him? Get a life again you sheep.
It seems if a few people, or a critical mass head onto a website, especially followers, everyone else will follow like sheep. Now marketers spam Twitter like there is no tomorrow because everyone is on there and they hope people will see there message.
Who are the sheep?
Well, the funny thing is that I don’t personally know anyone who uses Twitter. Sure, most of the people I know have Facebook but not a single one of them neither follows anyone on Twitter nor even has a Twitter account.
So who the hell are all these sheep then? Maybe I cried out too loudly and there are no sheep. The only sheep left on Twitter would be these marketers following each other, marketing their products to each other and following the celebrities when they get bored with their stuff.
Keep twittering sheep!*
*My deepest apologies to sheep of the grazing kind who can’t tweet (yet).
Getting your priorities in life right
Life is a learning curve. You start as a helpless baby unable to walk and talk. You go to school, you learn your trade. If you enjoy the academic world, you might carry on after school and go to university for 3 years. You come out of the education system at 21years old then, having spent around 16 years in a learning establishment. The hardiest might go on for a 2nd degree but this is where the water becomes murky.
Educational steps
When do you leave this cocooned world? When do you go out there in the real world to earn a living for yourself? University studies are not compulsory, in fact, continuing at school after 16 in the UK is not compulsory but advisable. If you go on to university, do a first degree and then a second, when do you stop? Is the second degree really going to be useful or are you delaying the inevitable – that of going out there and earning a living?
After finishing a degree, shouldn’t one be expected to get a job and settle down? Find a partner, get married and start a family? Move on to the next logical steps in the learning curve? It is now about learning responsibilities, learning about parenthood and then passing down to your children that experience in life that you have accumulated and that was passed down to you in turn.
Holding on to the past
Too many people out there are just grown-up children; kiddults is the new term. Some have no priorities and go where the wind blows them. They finish university, hang out with a partner for a while, party all over the place, move from job to job and when they get close to their 30s, they decide to go back to university again. They already have a first degree and instead of moving forwards, they go back to their easy, cocooned world.
When you leave university at 21, it’s great: you have your whole life ahead of you and a solid education behind you. But if you start university again when you are approaching 30, you are not progressing in your life. This is especially true if you have a spouse who is working and already supporting you financially. Your spouse may be looking ahead to the future and a family while you are looking backwards and going back to university for a second or third time instead of following the next logical step in the progression of your life.
Time is relentless
What you don’t know is that the clock is ticking. By the time you come out of university and get that ‘proper’ job, you will find out you have wasted your best years and that you are fast approaching middle age. Is that the time to start a family? Would children like to have elderly parents?
A large age gap is irreversible and sometimes means that children and parents are unable to form a close bond. The generation gap and diverging interests are just too far apart. A lack of fitness at an advanced age also translates into an inability to play sports with your children and have fun with them, leaving you sitting on the sidelines. By the time you retire, your kids will just be starting out in life as an adult and you may well never see your grandchildren.
Don’t delay what you can have now. Life can pass you by and then one day you will suddenly realize you have accomplished nothing in your life. Act now. You only have one life to live.
Educational steps
When do you leave this cocooned world? When do you go out there in the real world to earn a living for yourself? University studies are not compulsory, in fact, continuing at school after 16 in the UK is not compulsory but advisable. If you go on to university, do a first degree and then a second, when do you stop? Is the second degree really going to be useful or are you delaying the inevitable – that of going out there and earning a living?
After finishing a degree, shouldn’t one be expected to get a job and settle down? Find a partner, get married and start a family? Move on to the next logical steps in the learning curve? It is now about learning responsibilities, learning about parenthood and then passing down to your children that experience in life that you have accumulated and that was passed down to you in turn.
Holding on to the past
Too many people out there are just grown-up children; kiddults is the new term. Some have no priorities and go where the wind blows them. They finish university, hang out with a partner for a while, party all over the place, move from job to job and when they get close to their 30s, they decide to go back to university again. They already have a first degree and instead of moving forwards, they go back to their easy, cocooned world.
When you leave university at 21, it’s great: you have your whole life ahead of you and a solid education behind you. But if you start university again when you are approaching 30, you are not progressing in your life. This is especially true if you have a spouse who is working and already supporting you financially. Your spouse may be looking ahead to the future and a family while you are looking backwards and going back to university for a second or third time instead of following the next logical step in the progression of your life.
Time is relentless
What you don’t know is that the clock is ticking. By the time you come out of university and get that ‘proper’ job, you will find out you have wasted your best years and that you are fast approaching middle age. Is that the time to start a family? Would children like to have elderly parents?
A large age gap is irreversible and sometimes means that children and parents are unable to form a close bond. The generation gap and diverging interests are just too far apart. A lack of fitness at an advanced age also translates into an inability to play sports with your children and have fun with them, leaving you sitting on the sidelines. By the time you retire, your kids will just be starting out in life as an adult and you may well never see your grandchildren.
Don’t delay what you can have now. Life can pass you by and then one day you will suddenly realize you have accomplished nothing in your life. Act now. You only have one life to live.
