When job hunting, I realised that more and more companies are looking for marketing people to specifically market to and on the latest things in technology, namely things like Facebook, viral marketing stuff on Youtube and what not, using Twitter and the gadzillion other online new-fangled things that I am not aware of.
To me, the Anti-Technology person, this will be a job from hell. I hate Facebook, and the only reason why I use it to to be a voyeur of other people's Facebook lives, and to un-tag photos of me that are uploaded on Facebook. (I really don't understand why people must tag me to their photos, but it would be rude to ask them to stop assuming that I want my photos seen by the entire world, so I must forever hold my peace regarding this.)
I refuse to tweet, even though some have almost gone down on their knees to persuade me to start tweeting. But I refused to have my thoughts confined to 14 letters because I know that is what will happen to my brain once I start tweeting; I will start thinking in terms of "tweets" instead of sentences, like I've started to expree myself and my life in terms of MSN display names!
Is it only me or is this level of technology really quite scary, the way they're so drastically changing how people live their lives, how people spell and think, and how people are losing the ability to think in long sentences?
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