A new study finds that 40.55 percent of all Twitter messages are “pointless babble.”
Of course, that percentage goes way higher if you also include babble that is irrelevant, incoherent or inane.
But what’s driving this share-your-nothingness phenomenon? Why are there so many millions of people who feel compelled to tell strangers on the Internet that their feet are cold or that they’re going to lunch?
Some experts say we live in the most narcissistic age ever. But others think the babblers are filling a void.
“Twittering stems from a lack of identity,” one clinical psychologist told the London Times. “It’s a constant update of who you are, what you are, where you are. Nobody would Twitter if they had a strong sense of identity.”
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