Twittering Egos

Everyone is talking about an online service called ‘Twitter’ whereby a person writes short descriptions of what they are doing at any one time, enabling others online to see this and follow the individuals process across their everyday life. I consider ‘Twittering’ as it is called to be the profoundest act of narcissism and it repels me. I see it as a modern symptom of the new way society deals with the average and keeps them following the system: instead of oppressing them, go for the slightly less evil but more subtle act of convincing them all that they have a genuine chance of being a member of the elite they uphold, i.e. rich and famous, "look at me, follow me, obsess over my life, for I am a shelf stacker with aspirations of stardom”. By the time they realise that they are not going to be rock stars, or famous actors, or billionaires, it will be too late, they will be too old, and a few years sitting in a plastic wrapped chair between death.

I must ask the fair question of whether or not blogging is just as narcissistic. At least with blogging the articles have the potential to be interesting, and not entirely about oneself.