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If the BBC published any more twatter stories it might aswell start redirecting news.bbc.co.uk to twitter.comOriginally posted by cojak View PostCoffee's for closers -
News must be a bit slow today so they are having to trawl twitter for something to report on.'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!
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There's an interesting article on this in New York magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/
Essentially, it seems that connected young people don't care that everyone can read all about them for years to come, it's only old fogeys who still think there is such a thing as privacy anyway.
I'm an anonymous old fogey: if you think I'm a Farquhar you're a wanquhar.Step outside posh boyComment
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They'll become old fogeys one day, and it will dawn on them why they got fired so regularly...Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View PostThere's an interesting article on this in New York magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/
Essentially, it seems that connected young people don't care that everyone can read all about them for years to come, it's only old fogeys who still think there is such a thing as privacy anyway.
I'm an anonymous old fogey: if you think I'm a Farquhar you're a wanquhar."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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True. There was that story the other day about Stephen Fry taking a break from telling everyone on Twitter what he's doing every hour of the day, so that he can spend more time writing a book about what he was doing a few years ago.Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostIf the BBC published any more twatter stories it might aswell start redirecting news.bbc.co.uk to twitter.com
This will surely be a self-perpetuating problem. In a few years time he's going to have to take another break from Twitter so he can write a book about what he was doing this time when he's taking a break from Twitter. And then, a few years after that...Comment
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What I really hate is when you Google for someone who is due to interview you, in the hope that you'll find something brilliantly in common which you can casually mention in the interview and basically guarantee the job, only to find that they are good looking, young, trendy, live in an ultra-cool apartment and write a state-of-the-art technical blog which is always up-to-date and obviously has a legion of devoted followers. One day I'll find someone who is fat, middle-aged and lists their interests as "beer".Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View PostEssentially, it seems that connected young people don't care that everyone can read all about them for years to come, it's only old fogeys who still think there is such a thing as privacy anyway.
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I'm guessing he'll just release his 'twits' in book form and call it his memoirs.Originally posted by dang65 View PostTrue. There was that story the other day about Stephen Fry taking a break from telling everyone on Twitter what he's doing every hour of the day, so that he can spend more time writing a book about what he was doing a few years ago.
This will surely be a self-perpetuating problem. In a few years time he's going to have to take another break from Twitter so he can write a book about what he was doing this time when he's taking a break from Twitter. And then, a few years after that...
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'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!
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First thing to make me smile today.Originally posted by dang65 View PostWhat I really hate is when you Google for someone who is due to interview you, in the hope that you'll find something brilliantly in common which you can casually mention in the interview and basically guarantee the job, only to find that they are good looking, young, trendy, live in an ultra-cool apartment and write a state-of-the-art technical blog which is always up-to-date and obviously has a legion of devoted followers. One day I'll find someone who is fat, middle-aged and lists their interests as "beer".
Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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