Have you been tweeted?
April 9, 2012 (Monday)
According to the Wall Street Journal, snake handling in worship services is back. There is a church north of Knoxville, Tennessee that features the practice. The pastor, 21, and his wife, 20, parents of four children, handle the poisonous vipers in services advertised on Twitter. A practice one hundred eleven years old is being promoted and advertised with the very latest in technology. The church has not been in existence very long, but now has 50 members and is growing.
The communications enabled by Smartphones is incredible. We have seen how the use of such media has brought about revolutions in several middle-eastern nations.
I don’t do Facebook, Twitter, or whatever the other stuff is. I use the computer, email, write blogs, etc. and am probably considered old-fashioned by the practitioners of the new stuff. Not very many years ago, the entire two sentences before this one would have not been understood by the average reader. But everything has developed so rapidly that what was unheard of, not very long ago, has now peaked and is fading in the wake of technology that eclipses whatever came before.
So, if you get a Tweet inviting you to a Rattlesnake-handling, it will be perfectly all right for you to pen a nice note explaining your prior engagement. Drop it in the mail. No need for Twitter.