Comments on: Twittering Your Life Away http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/ The latest from the FOX News Health team. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:12:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: tanarg http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23397 tanarg Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:44:29 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23397 True enough. But it's not insanity!!! I was disappointed to see your diagnosis of "Clark Rockefeller," who seems not unlike Obama, a plain-vanilla narcissist, which is not insanity. True enough.

But it’s not insanity!!!

I was disappointed to see your diagnosis of “Clark Rockefeller,” who seems not unlike Obama, a plain-vanilla narcissist, which is not insanity.

]]> By: Anna http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23389 Anna Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:57:44 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23389 Twittering, Texting, Facebooking, Myspacing, Skypeing... is what we are all doing while real life happens. I refuse to fall into this! Great article! Twittering, Texting, Facebooking, Myspacing, Skypeing… is what we are all doing while real life happens. I refuse to fall into this! Great article!

]]> By: Swimz Faster http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23345 Swimz Faster Tue, 26 May 2009 19:12:32 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23345 Twittering popularity is a....big cry..... for....attention and adoration People want to be noticed and loved. It's a shame that people cannot find true friendship and love without exploitation. .".Being removed from their real feelings and true connections" Is not going to bring them lasting happiness or fulfillment. Twittering popularity
is a….big cry….. for….attention and adoration
People want to be noticed and loved.
It’s a shame that people cannot find
true friendship and love without exploitation.
.”.Being removed from their real feelings
and true connections”
Is not going to bring them lasting happiness or fulfillment.

]]> By: Annabel http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23343 Annabel Tue, 26 May 2009 13:57:18 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23343 I agree w/ Dr. Keith 100%. I recently joined Facebook and it's amazing how everyone's lives seems so happy and perfect - you never hear about what's really going on. What happened to the days when everyone read a book or went to a movie to (temporarily)experience some drama? Why do we all feel compelled to fabricate it in our own lives? The more technology advances the more I just want to get back to basics - because no matter how far things progress they will never replace one of life's most essential needs: the human connection. I agree w/ Dr. Keith 100%. I recently joined Facebook and it’s amazing how everyone’s lives seems so happy and perfect – you never hear about what’s really going on. What happened to the days when everyone read a book or went to a movie to (temporarily)experience some drama? Why do we all feel compelled to fabricate it in our own lives? The more technology advances the more I just want to get back to basics – because no matter how far things progress they will never replace one of life’s most essential needs: the human connection.

]]> By: Paco Jimenez http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23328 Paco Jimenez Sat, 23 May 2009 06:14:07 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23328 Reading Mr Ablow's comments on the Hauser case kind of reminds me of the psychiatrists trying to put Strisand away in Commited. They only want to further their carears with little or no consern for those involved, If the good non-doctor thinks kemo is so good for anyone I suggest he try it for a year or so. This might give him some insite in to what he wants to force on a kid. The only thing worse then cancer is the poor excuse for a cure call kemo which the chemical companies want you to think is good for you, when in fact there is nothing good for you in that poisenous whiches brew. Probably Mr Ablow should stick to shrinking heads and leave medical desisions to Qualified people Reading Mr Ablow’s comments on the Hauser case kind of reminds me of the psychiatrists trying to put Strisand away in Commited. They only want to further their carears with little or no consern for those involved, If the good non-doctor thinks kemo is so good for anyone I suggest he try it for a year or so. This might give him some insite in to what he wants to force on a kid. The only thing worse then cancer is the poor excuse for a cure call kemo which the chemical companies want you to think is good for you, when in fact there is nothing good for you in that poisenous whiches brew. Probably Mr Ablow should stick to shrinking heads and leave medical desisions to Qualified people

]]> By: Jonathan Huggins http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23327 Jonathan Huggins Sat, 23 May 2009 03:40:37 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23327 You're a control freak who would like to tell everybody the perfect way of living life. If someone chooses to spend large amounts of time twittering, it is their life and their time and they choose to do so. You spend too much time giving other people advice on how to live life and should be doing something other than talking. Funny how we euthanize cats and dogs and call it humane but then treat suicide as if it were an act against someone else. You really should live your life worried about you and not about finding a way to control everybody else. Psychiatrists are full of crap! You’re a control freak who would like to tell everybody the perfect way of living life. If someone chooses to spend large amounts of time twittering, it is their life and their time and they choose to do so. You spend too much time giving other people advice on how to live life and should be doing something other than talking. Funny how we euthanize cats and dogs and call it humane but then treat suicide as if it were an act against someone else. You really should live your life worried about you and not about finding a way to control everybody else. Psychiatrists are full of crap!

]]> By: Marylina http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23321 Marylina Fri, 22 May 2009 20:32:15 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23321 I agree 100% with Dr. Ablow. I used to have a MYSpace Account and became obssessed with it, I would check it constantly and friends would post on it regularly. It was dumb, I would even post when I came home drunk at 1 A.M. and even check it on my lunch hour from work. Anyway, it ruined my relationship with my boyfriend eventually and I decided to quit using MySpace. That was two years ago, but now I see this obsession with Twitter and its very easy to see how people can become addicted. It's not a good thing for our society. I actually am glad I never used Twitter because I know how addicting it is. I agree 100% with Dr. Ablow. I used to have a MYSpace Account and became obssessed with it, I would check it constantly and friends would post on it regularly. It was dumb, I would even post when I came home drunk at 1 A.M. and even check it on my lunch hour from work. Anyway, it ruined my relationship with my boyfriend eventually and I decided to quit using MySpace. That was two years ago, but now I see this obsession with Twitter and its very easy to see how people can become addicted. It’s not a good thing for our society. I actually am glad I never used Twitter because I know how addicting it is.

]]> By: martha nolen http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23313 martha nolen Fri, 22 May 2009 02:16:27 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23313 Thank you for explaining what twittering is. Thank you for explaining what twittering is.

]]> By: Mac http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23310 Mac Thu, 21 May 2009 23:08:46 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23310 I've never done the Twitter thing myself, or Facebook or MySpace, but I can certainly see how it could become addicting in all the psychologically harmful ways you've mentioned. Technology (especially the web) can definitely make real people want to become un-real performers, in an effort to be "Somebody". I, myself, have been (maybe still am) guilty of wanting to entertain others, without letting them know the real me. While that's all fun and ego-massaging, I believe as Dr. Ablow does, that there is a tremendously slippery slope there. If people get used to being performers, rather than being real people, relating to others in a real, honest way, then how is anybody ever going to have a genuine, honest relationship with anyone else (which is probably the source of true happiness)? Fun and games and drama and conflict are all fantastic, in the world of fiction. But I think Dr. Ablow makes an excellent point in questioning whether all that is actually psycho-emotionally healthy in real life. I dunno... I just really like this post. And Dr. Ablow... "Son of Twitter"-- that's just genius! :) I’ve never done the Twitter thing myself, or Facebook or MySpace, but I can certainly see how it could become addicting in all the psychologically harmful ways you’ve mentioned.
Technology (especially the web) can definitely make real people want to become un-real performers, in an effort to be “Somebody”.
I, myself, have been (maybe still am) guilty of wanting to entertain others, without letting them know the real me. While that’s all fun and ego-massaging, I believe as Dr. Ablow does, that there is a tremendously slippery slope there.
If people get used to being performers, rather than being real people, relating to others in a real, honest way, then how is anybody ever going to have a genuine, honest relationship with anyone else (which is probably the source of true happiness)?
Fun and games and drama and conflict are all fantastic, in the world of fiction. But I think Dr. Ablow makes an excellent point in questioning whether all that is actually psycho-emotionally healthy in real life.
I dunno…
I just really like this post.
And Dr. Ablow… “Son of Twitter”– that’s just genius! :)

]]> By: Billy http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/21/twittering-your-life-away/#comment-23306 Billy Thu, 21 May 2009 15:08:21 +0000 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/?p=2513#comment-23306 You write a sensationalist post about a popular service. Tell me again who's looking for drama? You write a sensationalist post about a popular service. Tell me again who’s looking for drama?

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