If grown-ups are doing it, then it’s oh-so over

I’m a grown-up and I tweet. 

I’m sure you are a grown-up who tweets too. So, are your kids tweeting? Probably not. In fact, you can be sure that if grown-ups are doing anything, then for the kids, it is already passé.

This summer, my son and his cousin were off doing teenage boy stuff, and that seemed to include a lot of messing about on their iPads and a huge amount of hysterical laughter. They were even keen to go to their rooms early and gales of laughter from there made me wonder what on earth they were up to.

Turns out, they were Vine-ing. Yes, I had heard of it, but had no clue about what it was about: Vine is an app for sharing short, looping videos. I still don’t get it, because I’m over the hill. But here’s the news – twitter is so over: the kids are hanging on the Vine.