exactly - somehow we managed to survive a long time without needing to know 'instantly' that 'something' is happening 'someplace'.
Most of the instant reports are just plain lies anyway - watch any of big news channels when there is some breaking news - they literally just sit in front of the camera and make things up to fill the airtime with useless speculation, devoid of any real facts or news - I can tune in 6-12-24-48 hours later and read what really happened if I want to.
Same thing happens on twitter - some big event happens and ten's of thousands of people start commenting on their version of 'the facts'.
Take a 2-3 month break from twitter - see if your life is any worse of for not constantly being 'in the loop'.
> exactly - somehow we managed to survive a long time without needing to know 'instantly' that 'something' is happening 'someplace'.
We survived millions of years without having agriculture or human-made shelter, and yet at some point we built a civilization. That's not an argument for not doing things.
> Take a 2-3 month break from twitter - see if your life is any worse of for not constantly being 'in the loop'.
Who says I am constantly 'in the loop'? I do check Twitter when I want to, because there are subjects where I want to get the influx of raw ideas before they are processed and packaged by the powers that be. (It's also useful to track how those ideas are later processed and packaged in real time, something that you could never get by consuming mass media alone).
If you are addicted to it and can't spend one weekend without it that's your problem, don't project it on others.
It's just like representing debt with marks scribbled on a totem instead of a generic vague feeling of owing you something, or like movable types on the printing press. We could do without those, they were novelties at their time, but they happened to change society at a fundamental level when their substained use changed relationships built around the new tech.
Most of the instant reports are just plain lies anyway - watch any of big news channels when there is some breaking news - they literally just sit in front of the camera and make things up to fill the airtime with useless speculation, devoid of any real facts or news - I can tune in 6-12-24-48 hours later and read what really happened if I want to.
Same thing happens on twitter - some big event happens and ten's of thousands of people start commenting on their version of 'the facts'.
Take a 2-3 month break from twitter - see if your life is any worse of for not constantly being 'in the loop'.