Anybody who has been concious for the last few months and has perused what today passes for “NEWS” would have undoubtably come across atleast 5 to 10 articles pertaining to the utterly inane and utterly pointless phenomena of “mico-blogging” (as they would like to call it! ); the narcissistic and lazy attempt at blogging about the minute of people’s pathetic everyday lives that truly offer no value whatsoever to the sane and the reasonable. I take umbrage at the very idea of “micro-blogging” at various levels.

Let me first start from a first person perspective.
The idea that one should/would want to share little 150 character snippets about your daily activities for strangers and friends to follow is quite frankly disturbing and borderline psychotic. To do this one would actually have to assume that the trivia of their lives is actually of some value to others and to have cultivated an unhealthy sense of self;  the first step towards egomania and the cult personality. And as if the world doesnt have enough “personalities” to contend with in the normal media, these services only seek to create new esoteric and trivial personalities with no real contributions or real accomplishments. One example I can think of is this guy called “Robert Scoble” a blogger who dabbles in technology and peddles services and software for anybody willing to write him a check. His only real contribution has been to manufacture his own celebrity as some kind of geek commentator.

Secondly, the idea that 150 charecters is sufficient to actually convey to your “audience” your little snippet of activities/thoughts/ideas/interests/discoveries etc is truly ridiculous. It is like hearkening back to the days of the telegraph where disjointed sentences strung together in a desperate bid to convey your message. It simply provides too little information at a time to be of any productive use to anybody. It would be understandable however if the service provided a condensed summary of blogs/news articles/analysis etc where a “user” could get a crux of the information and read more if it interested or concerned him or her, however n its present form of 150 charecters it is utterly useless beyond a doubt.