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New Fax-to-Twitter Service Misses The Point of Computers, Wastes Paper (Video)

Anyone - even people who don't want to use a computer - can use Twitter now. A fax-to-Twitter service called Celery lets people write out a note, fax it in, and have it posted to Twitter for them. The 80-year-old woman interviewed using the service (video after the jump) says her daughter talks too much and wastes her time, so she'd rather just waste a lot of paper using Celery so she can have lovely, short, one-sided conversations. No need for those pesky devices like phones or computers. Bah! But, ah, isn't that wasting a lot of paper?...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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