As you know I have an aversion to new things particularly when they aren't really necessary and the old things are doing the job fine.
Years ago - in the late 1980s I resisted having a mobile phone as I didn't need one. The desk phone worked perfectly well. I had a few people working for me in brands, sales and distribution roles and made sure that they had the right tools for the job starting with the brick-like Motorola:
and progressively through the smaller ones that could operate 'hands-free' in cars.
I personally had no desire to have one of the stupid things until my senior management made it compulsory and I got a series of Nokias in the early days
I prided myself of hanging on to a particular out of date Nokia in the late 1990s and early 2000s even though the IT Department were offering me early versions of smart phones, because my Nokia had a fold out QWERTY keyboard which was useful for texting.
The chairman of the company was an early adopter (or a poseur). He liked to have the latest models as it was some kind of status symbol or a badge of honour. In those days (90s) every new release was smaller than the last release. This guy ended up getting phones so bloody small that he kept losing them which drove our IT Department and insurers nuts. What an idiot.
In the later 2000s I finally switched to the Apple iPhone and have an iPhone 5 which has served me pretty well since 2014 and I hope I don't have to upgrade (although Apple will no doubt work out a final solution for old machines).
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My career has been in marketing (and sales) and as such I had to keep abreast of what was going on in the computer programming world, business tools and social media but I employed people to action it. On a personal level I never operated a Facebook or Twitter account or a blog until after I'd given up full-time marketing. After I left, good friend Richard told me about his blog Richard's Bass Bag that he was running and how much he enjoyed being in contact with people through it. I remember asking Mike and Tony if they knew about this and the consistent reply was along the lines of ..... "That's just old Richard being silly - sort of like all those letters he used to write to the editor of Salient (the Victoria University of Wellington's student newspaper) under the pseudonym ' President of the White Sport Coat and Pink Carnation Society. I'd give it a miss if I were you".
Well I remember helping Richard in those letter-writing campaigns (Mike and Tony were sadly missing on the front lines) so this stimulated my interest and I set up some blogs of my own to join in to the exciting world of blogging with its global connectivity and exciting sharing of ideas.
So. In 2018 we have Richard's (sadly historically depleted) blog with a few limp hangers on and his brother Robert's famous disappearing blog. Sad really.
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And now we get to the reason for this post.
I had some time on my hands today having played tennis in the morning but with the afternoon being quite windy with a threat of rain. I played around with the computer watching Youtube clips of American comedians making fun of that old bloated wowser Donald Trump. I read some of his ridiculous tweets and thought that I could do better than him at that.
I set about starting up a
Twitter account.
For something that most dumb people on the planet have no problem setting up and running with daily inane tweets I found it to be bloody annoying and difficult. For a start I couldn't select a username that hadn't already been used and Twitter recommended one with my name followed by a seven digit number. Fuck! I cancelled out of all the set up after having decided that I didn't need it and certainly the world isn't waiting to hear from me every 5 minutes.
