Is twitter and facebook even important?

[Adrian]

Well done Bob Sir Dylan

I can hardly accept that challenging the relevancy of twitter and facebook is earth-shattering, but it does say that you are moving in the right direction.

My 17th year was a watershed in my life - we didn't have personal computers and XboXs in those days - we had rock'n'roll - dance marathons - pretty girls in huge fluffy petticoats - and we boys with a different pair of shoes for each evening of the week - heck - some boys had a different girl for every night of the week - but not me

It was the year I met the huge fluffy petticoat I was destined to marry and am still with 51 years later - it was the year I borrowed enough money from her father to buy a ring and we got engaged - it was the year I obtained a promotion to secretarial draughtsman to a major regional committee of county surveyors in a design competition to devise a pragmatic town and country real estate management project and programme to attract a globally-important socio-economic development to our region to improve the health, wealth and happiness of our population - which we did and the project kept me busy for the remainder of my working career until I retired three years ago after winning the highest global accolade I could ever have imagined though I never did anything for accolades - what I did, I did for love - love of god - love of queen - and love of country - the cheesy stuff that no-one appears to place any value in any more - but hey - they are my values - I couldn't give a monkeys for the rest of the world - if they want to go to hell in a hand basket that's up to them

So why have I said Well done Bob Sir Dylan - well I come from a bizarre background which led me to manifest a fairly bizarre life - not many get to obtain the same professional qualification at age 15 as George Washington obtained at 17 to become the first indigenous officer of the British Crown in all of the Americas and to work with military intelligence spooks from the UK, USA and EU at all, let alone as early as 16 as I did - and I'm receiving paranormal sensations from you Bob Sir Dylan that you are indeed at the same kind of watershed I encountered though obviously your world and your place in it are completely different to mine when I was 17 - nevertheless I am sensing that we are comrades in this pilgrims progress we are all stuck in here on earth, striving to reach the city of gold we've read or heard about but never set eyes on

Well - some of us have never set eyes on it - but some have, and lived to tell the tale - you'll see from my autobiography, Dafydd Bach: Death of Innocence (My Life of Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: Dafydd Tomos, Hyswain), that I spent a lot of time there in my infancy, childhood and early teens - a full 48 hours on one pretty momentous occasion - though I am a bit reticent to talk about it because I signed the official secrets act when I was 17 to take the post as the secretarial draughtsman and did a lot of my secret work there because that's where all my gurus, guides, mentors, saints and heroes lived at that time - and, indeed, still do

So why am I telling you this? Well, its because of the somewhat understated psychological state you presently find yourself in - I'll copy'n'paste it here to lift it out of the whaffle you have tried to hide it in - "recently I lost my brother and best-friend and was diagnosed with aspergers, and under all that hard news I may have been rejecting studying and just spending the time 'in dreamland' if you may, just wondering around on the internet for days and days without a life, and without even noticing it"

Therefore I am going to answer your questions "so the question is, what should I do and how should I do it? What is important and what isn't?" in relation to that psychological state - not social networking sites twitter and facebook

All of the answers you need about your brother and your best friend, and what is important and what isn't, can be found in books, believe it or not - books that tell of experiences of people like me came to tell others about it - I'm reluctant to speak about it, both for the reason I have already said, but also because one person, on his own, isn't often regarded as a very reliable witness, simply because he could have been off his face on drink or drugs at the time - no - I'll just inform you of books by other authors - an academic researcher, Celia Green - a media man, Bob Monroe - a physicist, Tom Campbell - and a neurobiologist, Eben Alexander - and if this bunch don't tell you where your brother and best friend are, and what is important and what isn't, then I'll eat my hat

Put away your childish toys, twitter and facebook, and see what is important and what isn't, hear what your brother and best friend are saying to you.