Feb
06
2010
Addicted to Tweets
Who doesn’t want to be taken out of the boredom or sameness or pain of the present at any given moment? That’s what drugs are for, and that’s why people become addicted to them. . . . Twitter is crack for media addicts. It scares me, not because I’m morally superior to it, but because I don’t think I could handle it. I’m afraid I’d end up letting my son go hungry.
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Just about everyone I know complains about the same thing when they’re being honest–including, maybe especially, people whose business is reading and writing. They mourn the loss of books and the loss of time for books. It’s no less true of me, which is why I’m trying to place a few limits on the flood of information that I allow into my head.
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I’m a Twitter addict myself. I also feel sad that books are going away. Nothing can replace walking into my school library and smelling the beautiful smell of old books.
Yet, I also feel sad because I am so like the average Internet addict. I do not nearly read as much as I did before I got a computer, and that was in the eighth grade. One passes through the turmoil of the teenage years and rejoice because they never got addicted to anything, like marijuana or cocaine. It turns out that they chained themselves to something just as terrible: the neverending time warp that Internet puts you in, where you have no idea where the time flies by, and struggle to stay off. It’s really sad.
I’m going with what the heck lighten up on this one.
Tweets aren’t the only addiction. I have to limit my blog reading too, otherwise I can spend my whole life reading about other people’s lives and thoughts instead of having my own. [Between Two Worlds is my Sunday morning pre-church activity which gives me a good start on the day].
True. I have recently cleaned up my blog reader so as to not have so many in it, and have closed my Twitter account. I only blog myself once or twice a week….contrary to those who say it should be daily.
I am a father of two, shepherd of two small flocks, and must honor the Lord with my time.
It is true that addictions and habits take different forms. Damaging they are still, however….whatever their form.