[LM_NET] Do you Twitter? You're old!

[Linda Martin <lindamartin423@GMAIL.COM>]

Thanks to Michael Joseph on the Children's Lit listserv (a very entertaining
and enlightening, if busy, listserv) for the following info:

Twitter is for old people, work experience whiz-kid tells bankers
[...]

He told The Times that at home he usually communicates with his male friends
while blowing up terrorists on the action game Call of Duty. “You use a
mobile phone if you want to talk to girls,” he said, as “only about one in
fifty girls plays computer games.”

Girls are a lot more prone to spend their time on social networking sites.
Matthew uses Facebook but his accounts with Piczo and Bebo have lapsed and
Twitter is strictly for the elderly. “It’s aimed at adults,” he said.
“Stephen Fry is not particularly cool. Also, for the cost of one tweet you
could send quite a few text messages.” As no teenagers followed each other’s
profiles, tweeting was “pointless”.

[...]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6703399.ece


-- 
Linda Martin
Teacher Librarian and Storyteller
2007 Georgia Library Media Specialist of the Year
Gainesville, GA
lindamartin423@gmail.com
www.lindamartin.us

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