BEST SELLING LITERARY AUTHOR STEPHEN KING QUITS FACEBOOK

BBC NEWS TECHNOLOGY : STEPHEN KING QUITS FACEBOOK by Jane Wakefield

Excerpt: Novelist Stephen King has quit Facebook, saying he was uncomfortable with the "flood of false information allowed in its political advertising."  He also said he was not confident the social network was protecting "user's privacy."  He made the announcement on Twitter, where he as 6.5 million followers.

SO GLAD I NEVER....

Opened Facebook, Instagram, used Twitter to communicate.

I DON'T TWITTER!

There is more than one Christine Trzyna on this earth.

This one does not presently Twitter.

I have never sent one Twitter message in my life!

The reason is that I can't believe anyone would be so interested in the minor details of my life that they would want to be interrupted frequently with updates and I CERTAINLY HAVE MORE TO DO WITH MY TIME THAN BE INTERRUPTED BY OTHER PEOPLE'S MINOR DETAILS! (All that using up time instead of using it! If anything I need hundreds of hours of uninterrupted time to write!)

There was a time when to do so I had to pull the phone out of the wall.

And you know. People who want to chat a lot on the phone seem to hardly ever want to go out and do something.

VANITY FAIR ON THE TWITTER PHENOMENA

Queens of Twittering may send up to 1000, one hundred forty word, messages a day, and so far there is no direct financial profit in it. This Vanity Fair article by Vanessa Grigoriadis is about the way some people embrace new technology and hire GHOST TWITTERers to keep their fans updated with the minutia of their lives.

I personally have no time to Twitter and am not that interested in the minutia nor do I imagine anyone at all interested in mine. Really impactful personal "sharing" dates in coffee houses are rare to come by as well. Seems to me the best use of Twitter-like reportage is for purposes of MARKETING.

I believe that some people DO NOT KNOW THEY EXIST IF THEY ARE NOT CONSTANT WITH THE REPORTAGE.

Have you experienced meeting someone for coffee and feeling like you may as well come alone since the person across the table is too busy with their cell phone - texting - to pay much attention?

Christine Trzyna

"MOODS" AND "MOMENTS"

"MOODS" AND "MOMENTS"

I was reading Carlos Castaneda. I realized that he was using the term "mood" to mean something other than moody or emotional. Rather, it seemed that a new "mood" could mean something such as a new trend, or instinct, or way of thinking, being, or doing. A mood implies a change, a way of perceiving that an old way is past. A mood could occur as a decision or a perception of having changed. It could register with impact or barely, though to be cognitive of a mood one must sense it. Sensing mood might suggest that the understanding of it is not exactly cognitive but instinctual or intuitive.

I've also heard people using the term "moment" to mean something other than a smidgen of time. For instance a couple who met, made love, and decided against a relationship, can be said to have had their "moment." (A moment is a more romantic notion than "hooking up" for sure.) People can have their "moment" in fame, career success (or failure), or on a night out that lasts beyond the five minutes of fame Andy Warhol saw as a guaranteed moment for everyone in the future. (Perhaps this is what SOCIAL NETWORKING is all about, a self propelled moment of fame!) It is understood that as you read my blog you are having a moment with me and certainly I hope you pick up on my mood and yours is a bit altered for the experience!


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