Should Our Glorious Leaders Steer Clear Of Social Media

[sp1814]

I am an total left-wing liberal yoghurt-knitter (whatever that means), I am in a minority who actually has a modicum of respect for Our Glorious Leader Cameron...

But it seems that every time he takes a trip into social media, I end up cringing like I did when I was 14, listening to my mother trying to sing 'Heart Of Glass' not knowing whether it was sung by Debbie Harry or Annie Lennox.

Should we say 'STOP' to those who don't really 'get' social media?

Is it not time to say, "Look...you're in your 40s - don't try to engage a demographic that you don't understand?"

http://themediablog.typepad.com/

[mushroom25]

it's got nothing to do with age - i'm willing to bet you're not far off being a contemporary of his. it's just that he's a bit of a luddite when it comes to technology......

[askyourgran]

Know what you mean sp, when he was on holiday he looked as thought he'd just nipped out the back door of No10 for a few hours he doesn't seem to be able to 'dress down' or relax enough. Having said that he does have a sort of authority to withhold. Same can be said for Minibrain with his flappy mouth.

[237SJ]

Maybe he`s trying to surpass his personal best which was when he said (when referring to Twitter) "Too many twits might make a pudding"

[237SJ]

Swear filter completely ruined that.

[Sharingan]

I don't think it's an age thing either, my Grandmother Tweets and Facebooks and is fine with both as do a lot of quite elderly people. I just think Cameron is an utterly out of touch wombat, that's his problem, he'd be as out of touch whatever he did, social media just makes millions of people aware of it all at once.

[Gromit]

Prime Minister Socially Limited (pmsl)

[sp1814]

Sharing an

I too am in my 40s and am (only slightly) older than Davie Boy.

However, I know my limits.

I will it engage my 22 year old nephew about the relative merits of Drake vs Macklemore because I know that basically I am on very dodgy ground.

It just seems slightly appalling to me when someone who really doesn't 'get it' tries to engage with something they don't know about...

Like when we all found out that Cameron thought that LOL stood for 'lots of love' rather than 'laugh out loud'.

Don't you want to say...

'Just stop....please just.....stop'.

[Canary42]

It's not the medium that's at fault, it's the user.

Plenty of people well well over 40 can and do perform perfectly well in Twitter and Facebook style environments.

So cut the ageism, blame the person. He's far too posh and rich to be in touch with the reality of how most people live.

[sp1814]

Canary42

Will stop the ageism if you stop the...errr...richism?

Yeah...let's make that a thing...


Richism...

[ToraToraTora]

you have to be raving to partake in any of that old pony anyway.

[Canary42]

I'm not richist, just quite old :)

But, point taken, and I'll try.

[sandyRoe]

Could he not employ some streetwise youngster from Con Central Office, a modern day version of the young William Hague as an example, to do his twittering for him?

[sp1814]

sandyRoe

I totally know where you're coming from and it's a device I use myself.

I have a 22 year old nephew and a 12 year old nephew.

When I want to find out about new music, I text my 22 year old nephew to get an update.

In ten years time I will be using my (currently) 12 year old nephew likewise.

I also enjoy telling them that no good music has been released since 1998 and that Madonna is better than Rihanna.

[237SJ]

I take it that you have nothing to say to the first 4 of us who bothered to answer on this thread :-)

[sp1814]

ToraToraTora

If you are referring to Twitter as 'pony', I kinda agree with you.

I have only ever found it useful once - when I was watching 'Broadchurch' and couldn't work our a plot twist. I checked the Broadchurch hashtag for an update.

...but other than that - I don't really see the point of Twitter. It seems to to the place for minor celebrities to post 'selfies' of themselves in compromising positions.

One wonders whether Winston Chrurchill would have posted shots of himself in his pants in some random hotel room, had Twitter been available in 1949?

[sp1814]

237sj

Mr Camreron didn't actually say that though (referring back to your post of 21:26).

And for the life of me, I can't work out how the swear filter managed to change that naughty word to 'pudding'.

...unless you 'self censored'.