Twitterati

Much concern among the Community's social networking community today after Young Keith threw a sheep at poor Marston Moretaine.  If they'd both been on Facebook at the time it wouldn't have been so bad.

However, the incessant twittering around the place is getting me down.  Updates such as "Edith is on Twitter", for example.  That is a message that can be read from the meta-data of another tweet, if you follow me.
Also, "I'm Spartacus" can get very wearing when retweeted too many times.

Meanwhile Elois is now impossible to drag away from her laptop.  She's missed six sunrises in succession, and on each occasion her tweets have consisted of "missed another sunrise due to being on Twitter :( ".

Likewise the Facebook status of Drayton Parslow - "Drayton should be the Archdruid" is getting a bit monotonous after nine months.  As are the 52 "Likes" after it.  Don't forget, I know who you are.

Burton, always a stickler for details, is definitely driving us all to distraction, with his consistent updates on the frequency, size and - heaven help me - texture of his bowel movements.  That would be bad enough, but why some freak has taken to retweeting them is beyond me.

I feel the need to stress the Community Rule #42 of the Beaker Folk at this point - "Use of internet social networking is permissible, and indeed encouraged, if it leads to the increased weal of the persons of the community."  However it must be modified by Rule #43, "In most cases, your opinions are tedious, predicatable and fatuous.  They are a waste of the electrons that carry them and the energy required to encode the magnetic dipoles that store them."

I'm ever so pleased we've got as far as Rule #43.  When we started we only had the one, and that was "Don't be evil".  And we had to give that one back.

Meanwhile, bad news about the Moot House in Second Life.  It's burnt down.