"I've Wiped the Internet!?"

In Eddie Izzard's 1997 comedy special Glorious, he talks about people who have Techno Joy versus people who have Techno Fear. That is, people who embrace technology and rush headlong into it, learning everything they can, early adopters, etc. And then the people who have Techno Fear, who sit down at a computer and are afraid to click on anything for fear of somehow erasing their hard drives or the entire internet.

I know I need to learn how to use Twitter and other tools more effectively as part of my 'trying to be better at promotion' thing, but every time I try to wade into it, I get the Techno Fear. It all just seems so overwhelming, with the hashtags and the subtweets (and the screaming) and the other things that shouldn't start with 'the' but do now because I can quote verbatim from a 22-year-old comedy special that I bought on CD from a store I walked into. With cash!

Hello, fellow kids!