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Friday, June 30, 2006
11:31:00 AM EDT
Hearing Ashanti's Letterbomb -- Dean Gray
I find this unaccountably endearing: a 35-year-old man grumps that he doesn't "get" MySpace:
Yet it's not for me. I mean, I could go and create a page myself, but somehow I'd rather scrape my retina off with a car key. At 35, I'm too ancient for MySpace - I'd look like a school-gate paedo - but that's not really the issue. No. It's simply bloody-minded "olditude" on my part - the same sort of fusty grumbliness that made greying musos boycott CDs in favour of vinyl in the 80s because they JUST DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW about this new-fangled whatchamathing.
Last week, in the US, I saw an advert for a handheld gizmo using the slogan "It's not a cellphone: it's MySpace on the go." It's a terrifying first - a new gadget I know I'll never want to buy. I've never felt so lost.
Heh. I would dispute this fellow's assertion that 35 is too old for MySpace for various reasons, but I do sypathize with the general concept that even among the technologically forward, at a certain point you throw up your hands and go "I give up." Let the kids have their MySpace! Damn kids!
The irony is that MySpace may have already peaked with those damn kids, so grumping about how you don't "get" it just makes you that much more clueless. You just can't win when you get behind the curve.
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11:31:00 AM EDT
Hearing Ashanti's Letterbomb -- Dean Gray
Rotten Kids! Get Off My CyberLawn!
I find this unaccountably endearing: a 35-year-old man grumps that he doesn't "get" MySpace:
Yet it's not for me. I mean, I could go and create a page myself, but somehow I'd rather scrape my retina off with a car key. At 35, I'm too ancient for MySpace - I'd look like a school-gate paedo - but that's not really the issue. No. It's simply bloody-minded "olditude" on my part - the same sort of fusty grumbliness that made greying musos boycott CDs in favour of vinyl in the 80s because they JUST DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW about this new-fangled whatchamathing.
Last week, in the US, I saw an advert for a handheld gizmo using the slogan "It's not a cellphone: it's MySpace on the go." It's a terrifying first - a new gadget I know I'll never want to buy. I've never felt so lost.
Heh. I would dispute this fellow's assertion that 35 is too old for MySpace for various reasons, but I do sypathize with the general concept that even among the technologically forward, at a certain point you throw up your hands and go "I give up." Let the kids have their MySpace! Damn kids!
The irony is that MySpace may have already peaked with those damn kids, so grumping about how you don't "get" it just makes you that much more clueless. You just can't win when you get behind the curve.
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hahah, I was dying reading this. We have a new girl at the firehouse who recently learned we were all on myspace and promptly told us we were all to old to be on there. Good Stuff. LOL
Brian
http://journals.aol.com/brimasta1/BecomingaFirefighter/
http://www.myspace.com/brimasta1 <---- not just for youngins anymore. -
He'll just have to lure schoolgirls into his van the old fashioned way, with candy and "I lost my kitten" stories.
I know an old guy I used to teach with who- seriously- refused to use a calculator. -
Okay, but what are the various reasons? Why'd ja do it? - K.
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Isn't Futureshock a neat thing? It happened to me a couple of years ago when I realized that my toaster is much smarter than I am.
-Dan
7/13/06 1:41 PM
Hoe true...
Just my take, what is yours?
Cheryl
http://journals.aol.com/cste6