It's the information age, boys and girls.

Remember when you wanted to know what your friends were doing, so you called them or walked to their house?

Well, now all you need to do to find out what Johnny's up to is log on to the World Wide Interweb.

Presto, Johnny is watching "Walker: Texas Ranger." It says so on his Twitter page.

Congrats. You don't really need to talk to him now.

While it's bad enough to know what your friends are doing 24/7, it's even worse when you know what your favorite athletes are doing when they should be catching passes for the Buffalo Bills in a big game against the New Orleans Saints.

I'm a big fan of the Internet. That's why I voted for Al Gore. But Twitter is ridiculous.

Professional athletes and their Twitter posts are the worst thing to happen to civilization since Lady Gaga.

I'll make this concession, though. They are entertaining.

Here's a few tweets you can find from these notable stars:

• "Catching a football is hard." — Steelers "receiver" Limus Sweed.

• "Banned my players from this site. Ohhhh, Jon Gosselin is out on a date. Awesome. I wonder what Colt McCoy is doing?" — Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach.

• "Jessica Biel is single again. I wonder if she likes Cabo. Bye week is coming. Cha ching." — Tony Romo.

• "Serenity now. Serenity now." — Terrell Owens.

• "Trying to learn how to throw left-handed so I can A) win the NFL Comeback Player of the Year for the third time next fall or, B) pitch for the Pittsburgh Pirates next spring." — Chad Pennington.

• "Let's see if I can last more than three minutes this time. The octagon is for wimps anyway." — Kimbo Slice.

• "I'm blind! I'm blind." — 70,000 fans simultaneously post at Qwest Field Sunday.

• "I wish I was blind." — 70,000 fans simultaneously post at Raymond James Stadium Sunday.

• "Now I have time to race Charles Barkley full time." — Locked-out NBA ref Dick Bavetta.

• "I have 100 bucks on Barkley." — former NBA ref Tim Donaghy.

• "Who gets fired but is asked to continue to work for another week? Wait until they see who will be batting cleanup for us tomorrow." — fired, yet still employed Indians manager Eric Wedge.

• "Maybe if I keep asking T.O. the same question over and over again, he'll blow." — Buffalo media.

• "Called Bernie Kosar to come out of retirement, but former boss told me he has 'diminishing skills.'" — Eric Mangini.

• "Told you so." — Brett Favre.

• "Almost made contact today." — Brian Bixler.

• "Didn't we just win the Stanley Cup yesterday?" — Sidney Crosby.

• "I do a much better job reading coverages on 'Madden '10.'" — Brady Quinn.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.