What I initially said in my opening salvo within these pages about twitter was and still is partly true...
OK so I succumbed... but partly for work reasons... some agencies are on there and by following them you can keep up to date with jobs... a lot quicker and easier it must be said, than facebook if you are out and about reliant on a mobile device.
If a celebrity says something then it carries more weight than if it were the utterance of a mere mortal. Take for instance the events of yesterday (Sept 28th) - something that will have passed most people by... A somewhat well known actor and writer Simon Pegg tweeted (as I believe it is called) about his dislike for the new trend of 3D cinema - I won't go into what he said and why (you can go look that up for yourself if so inclined) however the bit that got me worried was that his comments became news on another site - who more or less copied and pasted what he had written and thus a story was born. Ultimately such dross is not going to stop the world spinning or end all the troubles across the globe, but should make people stop and think a little - once you have cast your thoughts upon the web, they are no longer yours. They are public property and can and will be used against you.
In some ways this is a good thing. News is no longer forced down the throats of the consumer. They can seek out what they want in a form of their choosing and, in cases like this, bypass the 'manipulations' of the mass media. There will always be those that believe what they are told without questioning and that is their prerogative. I'm just glad I'm not one of them.
That's it, rant over.
Move along, nothing to see here
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