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The Life and Mind of DamnBlackHeart
This is to help me stay actively writing. So expect to see rants, tips on writing, thoughts on subjects, me complaining of boredom, reviews, anime, movies, video games, conventions, tv shows and whatever life throws at me.
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Twitter...
If you're one of those people who haven't heard of twitter here's an explanation of it. It's a social networking site where your posts are limited to 140 characters. You can post for free from a computer or mobile phone. You get one icon, but you can customize the wallpaper behind your posts page if you wish. Twitter is extremely popular, and the media has an enormous erection for it, which is pretty predictable considering the media adores sound bites. You can have your "tweets" compiled daily into a single post and post them to your livejournal or something like that.
There are many reasons people have given me as arguments for joining twitter and tweeting. It's instantaneous communication, it's useful when you don't want to write a post, it's a fun way to communicate with friends. You can follow celebrities and find out all the details of their daily lives. You can read and post from your phone on the go.
Well, of course it's useful for short posts, because you have to make it a short post. I can see the appeal. It's very seductive, the idea of posting thoughts as they occur to you, but it's also detrimental to reasoned debate, which is already becoming a lost art. It's easy to write a sentence and fling it out for the world to see. It's a little harder to be funny and pithy at the same time, but honestly...not that hard.
What Twitter discourages is the process of taking a single concept and expanding on it, or making an event in one's life into a story, or turning a question into a discussion.
Also, people have said that it's fun to follow celebrities on Twitter, and no doubt it is entertaining, but honestly I don't care. I don't read their blogs either. I am glad that they are successful entertainers and I am entertained by them when they perform, but I don't need to know that they had a great workout at the gym or that they ate a giant bagel this morning. It's irrelevant to me.
Just as it is, knowing what friends are doing 24/7. I already talk to them everyday so why would I need something else like twitter to let me know what they are doing? Especially if I'm right there with them or that I already asked them what they did/how they're doing?
I find it better to communicate with them personally than just reading it when they 'tweet'. Besides there's too many social networking sites that basically contain similar or the same features. The media is what made Twitter popular because it's just a fad. The media does this with every truly major Internet phenomenon that comes along. It happened with the Internet itself, than e-mail, than the Web, than social networking (Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, MyYearbook, etc) sites and now Twitter.
I may not see the purpose for using twitter but I'm sure others may find another useful purpose for it. Though I still find it pointless.
 DamnBlackHeart · Fri Sep 25, 2009 @ 02:01am · 0 Comments |
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