…he’s not a fan. In a response to claims that he called Nigeria’s first Lady, Patience Jonathan, illiterate, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka stated that he didn’t engage in social media and warned against having the internet become “a mere vomitorium for unprincipled scallywags.” lol classic. More on the click.
“Let me take this opportunity to announce yet again that I do not tweet, blog or whatever goes on in this increasingly promiscuous medium,” he stressed. “I do not run a Facebook, even though I am aware that one or two serious-minded individuals/groups have instituted some such forum on their own, for the purpose of disseminating factual information on my activities. I neither contribute to, nor comment on the contents of their “calendar”.
Speaking generally, he expressed concern that Internet abuse is getting to be a universal plague, one that goes beyond personal embarrassment and umbrage, and called for collective, professional action to protect the integrity of the medium, and save it from becoming “a mere vomitorium” for unprincipled scallywags who may or may not have a particular axe to grind.
“Such a trend is fraught with outright danger, and should not be underestimated,” he warned.
Don’t you enjoy how our elders/older folks scrutinize things? It’s so classy. “The internet should not become a vomitorium for scallywags!” lol word.
