For once I agree with the head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police — about Twitter
The sheikh says Twitter is bad, and that anyone using it “has lost this world and his afterlife.” A bit extreme, but I understand the sentiment. Myself, I would have put it in a more Wordsworthian way. I think that most social media are a sordid boon, and that late and soon, twitting and spending, ...
The sheikh says Twitter is bad, and that anyone using it "has lost this world and his afterlife." A bit extreme, but I understand the sentiment.
The sheikh says Twitter is bad, and that anyone using it “has lost this world and his afterlife.” A bit extreme, but I understand the sentiment.
Myself, I would have put it in a more Wordsworthian way. I think that most social media are a sordid boon, and that late and soon, twitting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
So I say: Tweet less, live more. Technology is only liberating if you control it, rather than the other way around. We should not confuse data with meaning.
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