Who has time for morals?

It feels like the media is grasping at straws in its attempts to talk about Twitter these days. First it was a caricature of our high-speed society, then suddenly it was the hip playground for those with an overinflated sense of self-importance. As if blogs weren't bad enough, now you don't even have to write to be popular. Please, God, either foresake me for having an account or call me up to glorious electro-heaven where video bloggers drink Sparkz with Kevin Rose and fist-pump to mashups by the next Girl Talk.

A little technophobic writeup on CNN.com decries fast-paced, 140-character Tweets as the mental equivalent of TMI. According to the article, downing nibbles of information every hour of every day doesn't give us enough time to digest the moral implications of what we're reading.

Seriously? I think that's a stretch.

I think that (for the most part) Tweets are very fire-and-forget, dull happenings in peoples' lives. Sure, there's an occasional "my heart is sad" interspersed among the more familiar "I just ate a burrito at Cafe Adobe" and "@tfaust dicks," but is our generation really becoming so shallow that we use Twitter as anything more than a jumping-off point for a real conversation?

Twitter is a tool used by the Houston Chowhounds to find and felate each other during downtown lunchtime. It's used by readers of Houstonist so that they can throw a technological buzzword into their pub crawl. But is it really causing us to become a demoralized society?

You tell me.

[Scientists warn of Twitter dangers - CNN.com]