Shackleton and Twitter

For those of us that can't quite decide whether or not Twitter is - in the most part - an inane vanity project, I just read in polar explorer, Ben Saunder's blog that Shackleton had similar thoughts about an entry into his first Antarctic diary, 107 years ago:

"I turned in about 1am. What a ridiculous thing it must seem to other people to read a diary where such a statement as 'I turned in at 1am' appears as if they were interested in the time another fellow mortal at the other end of the world went to bed… Those sort of items are the penalties that one's friends must pay when struggling to gain a little real information in these reams of paper.
- E.H. Shackleton, diary, 14 July 1902A refreshing reminder that though means and technologies change - we are asking the same questions now as we were 100 years ago.