Submitted by Dom Doze on 1 November 2009 - 10:29am
Stephen Fry has threatened, and then unthreatened, to leave social networking site Twitter after he was accused of being boring by another user.
@BrumPlum is that user. Having negatively evaluated the much-loved Fry; a man who suffers from sporadic lapses of confidence and self-worth, Plum is now seeking to solidify his new position which he feels is of the utmost transient micro-importance.
One of life's poetic formulae is demonstrated by the fact that one second someone can bleat about boredom, and the next second they are demonstrating their own implacable skill in its execution.
As a result, Plum has spent the last 24 hours soaking in the welcome juices of media glare, updating his blog to demand public apologies from people who he feels have wronged him, posting precariously confident tweets asserting that the situation is under control, and generally implying that he is of load-bearing importance to the structural integrity of tech-social Britain.
Now that his media saturation point is nearing, fears are abound regarding the mind-state of the frenzied Plum and the unthinkable steps he may take in order to prolong his fleeting influence.
It will no doubt be something boring.
But, crucually, boring is not a crime. Boring is not even a worthwhile topic of conversation; it is a self terminating matter of interest. Boring is incredibly boring. Boring also spreads across the cyberspace mansion fast, carried from server to server by the ever-decaying ghosts of the blogosphere.
All we have seemed to learn is that when an ego-deficient clashes with an ego-centric, someone is gonna get hurt.
Today that someone was Netiquette.
I wish stephen fry would agree to have my babies. it would make the whole procss much simpler
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