Wednesday, November 30, 2011
A Dozen By a Dozen... Blog 3/12
What I really think about the writing space that twitter affords is very different. Twitter has created it's own universe full of hash-tags and abbreviations that only "tweeters" will be able to understand. Language becomes informal and short fragments of sentences. Tweets are thoughts that simply pop into our minds and that eventually weasel their way to the internet. Some are funny and people are entertained by them and others should have maybe been kept to ourselves and not published for the world to see. Due to the fact that our society "hides" behind computer screens, tweets are ways of getting to know someone without ever having met them. You know what they think about other people and things going on in ou world. Communication behind a computer screen wasn't intended by our generation but it just evolved and happened because of our technology. Facebook and Twitter are like digital conversations between people where we interpret personality and gain knowledge.
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Hey Jonel! I completely agree with your thoughts about twitter. I think that it is definitely a good way to learn about the thoughts of others that we would've never been aware of. For some reason people do seem to be more comfortable expressing their thoughts when hidden behind the safety of a computer. Why do you think that is? I think that maybe it is because people are usually concerned with the opinions of others and when they are face-to-face with someone they fear the reactions they might get. On the other hand, when someone is posting online, they don't have to see the expressions or reactions of others; they don't have to fear that their thoughts will be refuted.
ReplyDeleteI really like you talk about the tweeter culture and how it can be exclusive. I do think however that you could talk about how twitter can be very ineffective and how you cannot formulate a full idea in just a few words.
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