{"id":32,"date":"2013-09-09T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2013-09-10T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T15:49:13","slug":"facebook-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/facebook-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook & Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

What better place to start an angry middle aged rant than the two things I don’t really understand?<\/p>\n

I literally have no idea what Twitter is all about. I managed to get the username ChineseElvis but I have never used it knowingly. And by that I mean when I have used it, I have no idea what the hell is going on. It also means that I have also willfully avoided using it. I resent my inability to use it.<\/p>\n

Facebook is quite useful for organising school reunions, I have found.<\/p>\n

Under peer pressure, I started a page for ChineseElvis, but it is rather pathetic, I will admit. I don’t know what to say there because I dont like or understand people that use the site. https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChineseElvisUK<\/a><\/p>\n

The last post there has a good gag, which to save you having to click, I repeat here:<\/p>\n

This lady was doing her act at a gig I was headlining and allowed me to take a picture of her:<\/p>\n

\"2013-07-25<\/a><\/p>\n

“If you look long enough, eventually you can see a snake.”<\/p>\n

Apart from this schoolboy gag, the rest of the page is, as you can see, mostly a waste of pixels and time, which is frankly what I find Facebook to be full stop. I have turned off the alerts for so many of my “friend’s” posts that I have literally no idea what they are all on about when they email me to ask why I am not engaging in some protest they are all against. Or for. All these people assume that I follow the feed as frantically as they do and this assumption only makes me want to avoid Facebook (and them) all the more.<\/p>\n

Yet I am too chicken to delete my account. I am like a kid who hates being at a party, but doesn’t dare leave in case anybody has a good time without him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What better place to start an angry middle aged rant than the two things I don’t really understand? I literally have no idea what Twitter is all about. I managed to get the username ChineseElvis but I have never used it knowingly. And by that I mean when I have used it, I have no … Continue reading Facebook & Twitter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,3,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}