Twitter… possibly gave me a headache lol

November 15, 2008 jtzunum

Not really… in the end it went away. Just the concept of it was what kind of baffled me. I spend a lot of time on myspace and facebook… both which have a similar idea integrated. At first I wondered what anyone could possibly get out of constantly revealing every little detail of their life… then I thought about it again and realized that I do that a lot on Myspace… Its not noticeable until you really think about what you do with these updates. I tend to notice other peoples status updates and sometimes conversations do occur. You don’t really know a friend until you can make small talk of the small details. It seems so unlikely… the whole just talking about anything, but it DOES happen. I’ve learned things about friends through their updates and sometimes we find that we have similar problems or things in common. In my opinion, I would think that finding commonalities would be the benefit. It’s like getting to know someone but without actually having the conversation per say.

I can’t really say that I would be on Twitter all the time. It seems ok… its not hard to navigate but I find no real substance to it. I already have it on my page, where I already have friends, and on my facebook where I have my old friends. I don’t know if I’d even remember having it open on my screen. Which brings me to another good point. I could add it to my PLE and it’d be a different version on myspace for me. I can see myself updating my status while learning… which could very well draw attention to my online identity through Twitter…. this is how I got my headache!!! haha… it’s actually not that bad because I already went through my “AH-HA!” moment. Wasn’t that part of the experiment anyway? I just need to find everyone else on it… no biggie.

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1. sagustine | November 17, 2008 at 5:47 am

Jess, I like this layout, and the color. I think facebook and myspace is better than this twitty. Its definitely gave headache. I guess it usefull for the purpose like saving life, or other usefull chat. but to just let others know every detail in your daily schedule, Who Care?
2. agustinch | November 18, 2008 at 8:50 am

Yeah, I agree with your comment, I don’t think that people will be interested to know every little thing I do or feel 24/7. I don’t have any interest to let people know about that either, I mean, we hardly have any time left in our daily routines and I won’t be spending that little time just adding feelings or comments into twitter or any such application. I do see as a good usage of this tool for emergencies or other related activities.
3. mariam8099 | November 18, 2008 at 2:31 pm

yea im also agreeing with all of you on that im completely anti social & rarely like to make my feelings or anything else public except for those i know & talk to on a reguarl basis yet othes like it more power to them i’ll stay out of twitter that is if i can
4. jimmydlg | November 18, 2008 at 9:35 pm

Having an emergency responded to because of something seen on the internet is anything new. There have been reports of lives being saved and crimes responded to via instant messaging and many other near realtime services. (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-17142430_ITM) So I don’t see how Twitter is any more special in that regard than say IM or even myspace.. just about any technology these days connecting many individuals is good a spreading the word to a mass of audiences. And personally, I like being able to speak my whole mind, and not just the first 140 characters of it