Melting Snow

Fun Fact Friday: I Don't Twitter and other Friday Thoughts

Friday, July 15, 2016

“Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.”
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The Fun Fact Friday prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" 
On this day in 2006, the social networking service Twitter was publicly launched. Do you use Twitter? What are your thoughts on it? If you don't, tell us how you feel about social networking in 140 characters or less.

I Don't Twitter

I don't Twitter,
I don't tweet,
I don't sext,
but I do text.

I don't Twitter,
I Facebook
by posting status updates
once or twice a day.

Social Networking

Living life in 140 characters or less
is like going on a grapefruit diet;
it's possible to survive
but it's not living.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 1339
Let's talk about the latest app that is making a splash. What are your thoughts about Pokemon go? Do you think is a trend that will last or simply be a flash in the pain? Do you feel there are risks?

Fun with Dick, Jane, and Pokemon Go

I learned to read Fun With Dick and Jane,
I read aloud "See spot run."
I laughed because I thought reading about
spot running was fun,
but I never encountered Pokemon
while I was imaging the way spot run.

How dangerous can Pokemon be?
It depends
on whether you believe Pokemon is virtual reality
or real world reality.

Playing Pokemon Go is risky because people watch the game screen instead of their surroundings. If you don't watch where you're gong you can walk off a bluff or get stabbed.1 If you play while driving you can hit the car ahead of you when it stops at a light or you might hit a pedestrian who is also playing Pokemon Go and not watching where he/she is going. There are other dangers as well because while playing Pokemon Go on a hiking trail you could walk off the trail and into a patch of poison ivy.

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for DAY 859
Please take a moment to discuss something that is trending right now in your area in your entry. Are they important or trivial? I know when I glanced on MSN and saw the list, my first reaction was ... Seriously! Where is our world going?

In Panaca, 165 miles from Las Vegas, a man was killed in two explosions. The man, who is thought to be the maker of the bombs, wasn't a terrorist but a person angry at his boss.2

Ten years of LOVE: Beatles Cirque Du Soleil show gets a whole new look3 at the Mirage Hotel & Casino debuted Thursday with Sir Paul McCartney attending the opening show.

On Thursday night, local pastors held a prayer service to support the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.4

Footnotes
1  http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-...
2  http://news3lv.com/news/local/one-killed-in-two-explosions-in-panaca
3  http://news3lv.com/news/local/ten-years-of-love-beatles-cirque-du-soleil-show-ge...
4  http://news3lv.com/news/local/local-pastors-hold-prayer-service-in-support-of-lv...