It’s reported that Lily Allen has decided that she needs to let go of the multiple social networks that she’s been relying on for the past couple of years. Lily has self-promoted using twitter, blogging and facebook for a while now, her use of twitter has been on par with other twitter star, John Mayer.
In a single twitter post Lily wrote “I am a neo-Luddite, goodbye” and with that she put away her blackberry, computer and her ipod (that’s the one I don’t understand) and has decided to take the less technological road.
One still has to wonder what this move would do to her popularity, her blog and twitter account did get her a number of television articles and fans who followed her twitter exploits (even now her twitter account boasts over 1.5 million followers).
I also wonder whether the addiction is with the un-real communication, the need for fans or if there’s something else that hooks people into these forms of communication. And moving on from that why people seem to go hell for leather or cold turkey in their use of media like twitter, facebook and blogging, who are the role models that show a sensible way to manage one’s online media? Even I decided that Facebook was something that I just had to kill off rather than keep running in a sensible way (something I still don’t regret).
Then again, there’s something about Facebook and Twitter that lures people into un-real ways to use the media, the status updates are so small, and the knowledge that you’re only putting up what you’re thinking or doing at that minute encourages people to “keep it up to date” all of the time, which means constant access. Blogging at least allows you to post once then leave it be for a while, noone really wants you to post 10 page-long posts a day on what you’re thinking, eating or doing (unless you’re Seth Godin). Blogging, if used in the way one uses a journal allows you space away from the screen where we don’t really have anything to liken the use of Twitter or Facebook to, so very few people have offered mature and sensible ways to use it.
anyhoo, I’m blabbing…
and I know what you’re thinking…
“this would have been a better (and quicker) read if he did it on Twitter”
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