Posted on Monday, 2 July 2012
To tweet or not to tweet: that is the question.
- @isomorphisms: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
- The @'s and RT's of outrageous spammers,
- Or to hit /block against a sea of affiliate-marketers,
- And by Reporting, end them? To quit; to disable one's account; no more
- And by quitting we say to shut the laptop and end
- The predictable op-eds and the thousand engineer'd linkbaits
- That social media is heir to, 'tis a consummation
- Devoutly to be wish'd. To quit; to go outside;
- To go outside, perchance to walk, or lift a heavy object, or swing on a swing: ay, there's the rub,
- For in the outdoors what emails may come to mind that we realise we need to write just this second but don't have a pen or paper or a blasted smartphone,
- When we have left our b0xen in our flats,
- Must give us pause: there's the habituation
- That makes calamity of this 140-character media stream;
- For who would bear the whips and scorns of fatuous trolls on internet chatboards,
- (who are totally wrong), the successful entrepreneur's contumely,
- The pangs of unrequited backlinks, the ISP's delay;
- The insolence of @sacca and the spurns
- Of blog readers who reliably bounce at an 87% rate,
- When @isomorphisms himself might his own quietus make
- With a bare bodkin? Who would arXiv browse,
- To hunt and peck under a weary life,
- But that the dread of something after logging off,
- The undiscover'd country from whose boredom
- No surfer ever returns, puzzles the will
- And makes us rather bear those ills we have
- Than fly to others we know not of?
- Thus iPads do make addicts of us all,
- Its native 2048-by-1536-pixel resolution
- Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of the thought that I'm never not looking at the damn thing,
- And that enterprises of great pith and moment
- With an enticing reddit link their currents turn awry,
- And lose the name of action!
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