It would appear that my ability to resist the temptations of any mindless pass time is sorely lacking!
You name it, Facebook, Twitter, Friends Reunited, each time a new way to 'socially interact' appears or a new 'lowest common denominator' TV programme is scheduled I promise myself I won't get sucked in...and each time I do, despite my best efforts to ignore them all initially.
I have had my mouse on the Facebook delete button a thousand times but I never quite manage to hit it. I stopped paying for Friends Reunited so I couldn't use it....and then they made it gratis and I got sucked back in and Twitter....hell Twitter is the real killer, Twitter have hit the spot, quick, easy and simple, completely irresistible and should one get bored with merely 'Twittering' there is of course all the different apps. to access it with to investigate and play with too!
I could go into the long, drawn out psychological reasons these things get us (or me at least) and how the marketing guys win us over but I won't, you know all that stuff already no doubt and the fact is simple, they have us by the balls, they know what makes us tick and they have powerful tools to infiltrate our psyche, it's pretty clever stuff really,it's more my ability to resist it, even armed with that knowledge, that annoys me!
However, it gets worse! I have a confession, I resisted for three whole years but I have fallen off the waggon again this year and have become victim to that which is the horror of all humankind....Big Brother! Another mindless carry-on and this one not even requiring the ability to do more than press the 'on' button and stare idiotically at a screen! Not even a mouse to take control of!
You know it's bad when you wake up on a Friday morning and mention with copious amounts of glee to a horrified partner that it is 'eviction night'....and worse still find you are having trouble understanding why that happily imparted piece of information doesn't fill him with the same glee and is met instead with a silent and pitying stare!
Friday, 8 August 2008
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Reality television will be the downfall of mankind and the end of civilization as we know it . . .
ahhh, I got one step further than you and deactivated my CRACKbook account for many many months - yay! So liberating. But now I've used Adrian's Army as an excuse to go back - but thus far I'm crack free :) Will see how long that lasts.
I'm a chronic procrastinator so anything to distract and kill valuable time, I'm in.
Bog brother however I have managed to avoid. Don't get it here anyway but I was the one doing the pitiful head shake at my best friend in London when we lived there...
But enjoy it - we all have our poison. I'm sure there's lots of shit I look at that you'd shake your head at :)
Bulldog: You are not wrong!
Tash: Lol @ 'Bog brother'! ;o)
I almost deleted FB until AA appeared and then I just couldn't!
Crack? I never heard of that one...oh dear, I have to investigate now! ;o)
I will never understand the allure of Big Brother. I've watched it a couple of times, just to see what all the fuss was about, and it was just SO BORING!
But go for it, if it floats your boat. I guess it's harmless. Or maybe not, if Bulldog is right...
I'm not sure I will ever understand the allure of Facebook or Twitter. :)
Looks as if you need help girl!
http://tinyurl.com/6d8y55
As you know, I'm not really up on all this Web 2.0 stuff.... ;-)
FB has become more of a quick way to email friends who don't bother checking anything but facebook...
I've never twittered and don't know what it is. I'm not sure I should find out by the sounds of it :)
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