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Actor Sir Patrick Stewart speaks at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 13, 2010 (Getty Images)
ACTOR DISSES MICROBLOGGING NETWORK AS ‘SIMPLISTIC’
You would think that the man who has played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films would be an early adapter of new technology.
But apparently, 69-year-old actor Patrick Stewart isn’t as much of a techie as you might expect.
Stewart told PBS’s “Digital Nation” that he doesn’t get the microblogging website Twitter.
“To reduce life to–how many [characters]? 140? Just seems to me to be a little bit simplistic,” Stewart said. “Maybe I like complexity and abstraction too much.”
Blasphemy!
Personally, I find the art of saying a lot in only 140 characters to be far more challenging than saying nothing in 140,000 characters.
Stewart also admitted in the interview that he is afraid of getting hooked on video games and that he loves his “beautiful iPhone.” Regardless, that still doesn’t make up for dissing Twitter.
What I don’t get is how people don’t get Twitter. It’s not what it was originally marketed as (a 140 character blah on what you’re doing right now). It’s become way more of a news and information sourcing tool and a means to converse with like minded people easily and simply relating to that information. Twitter is like a great news and discussion system – at least, that’s why I like it. I find myself tweeting views on news and engaging with other interested people about those views. Twitter makes doing so quicker and easier than any other way. I hardly think it “reduces life to 140 characters”. It actually “expands life” by broadening your access to up to the minute information.