Here's a Tweet- I don't Give a CR**

This is from a guy I know and think that he is one of the best writers (well honest at least) out there. His name is David Pingree and he pretty much hit it right on the head about some of you Twitters out there. I don't give a rip about your meal, what you are drinking (unless you are recommending an ale of some kind) or that you are watching a movie with your main squeeze. All of the above I am guilty of in the past and most likely will be guilty of in the future BUT, I don't care about the last dump you took so don't Twitter about it (even tho I did 2 bathroom Twitters in the past- one during an earthquake and one when I had to use single ply toilet paper). Go ahead and keep it up but I will most likely get rid of you on my Twitter account.
Here's the link to the original post and I copied and pasted the one post below.


http://www.racerxonline.com/article/ask-ping-5-1.aspx




Ping,
How’s it going? Dude, r u as sick of hearing about twitter as I am? Where in the he** did this crap come from?! Like anyone cares what people are doing every hour on the hour. I can see how it may be beneficial for traveling buddies, certain business issues, etc., but give me an effing break. 2 months ago I had never heard of it. Now, Larry King, Ashton Kutcher, Mario Lopez, and everyone else in the free worldacts like it's the Holy Grail. I'm so burned out on hearingthe word twitter! Overkill is an understatement.
Anyway, I just wanted to vent a little and I'm hoping u'll go off on this as I'm sure ur as clueless as to what the actual point is of twitter as i am.
By the way, I'm impressed with u and ur team. It seems ur doing a great job.Keep up the good work!
jimmy
p.s. free j-law



Hey, here's a Tweet! ... I don't give a crap.

Dear Jimmy,
Thanks for the compliment on the team. We have an amazing group of people working in our race shop and I think we are going to continue to impress people. It’s funny that you mention Twitter because I was just listening to Ryan Seacrest go on and on about it the other day on the radio and I couldn’t understand the point of it. Apparently, from what I gather, it’s just a bunch of verbal diarrhea about any and everything that happens to a person throughout the day. And each of these pointless expressions are called “Tweets.” Wow. That is the most obtuse, self-serving bunch of horse crap I have ever heard of. Could this collective society be any more in love with itself? We already have Facebook and MySpace pages so we can show photos and videos of ourselves doing all kinds of cool things to impress whomever it is we try to impress. Now we can follow any person’s journey through each and every single day. Guess what? I really don’t give a crap. I’m not interested in my own life enough to spend the time to set up these self-worship websites and there’s no way I’m taking the time to tell the few nut-jobs that are crazy enough to sit around and read about every single detail of my day, every single detail of my day. These people spend so much time telling and showing everyone what they are doing that they don’t have any time to go out and actually do anything. Look, folks, this crazy train has officially derailed. I don’t give two squirts of piss what Oprah did last weekend at home with her live-in boyfriend. I don’t care what cool new restaurant Ryan Seacrest ate at over the weekend. And when James Stewart “tweets” that he just got back to his hotel after the race and gives his two cents about how his night was… you guessed it- I don’t care. Just because we have the technology to do something dumb like Twitter, doesn’t always mean we should.
P.S. They’ll free your precious J-Law when he stops breaking the law. Pretty simple, really.
PING