Twouble with Twitter
Although I rarely tweet, (I only ever tweet textual clothing as people #putontext) I do get extremely stressed out before I ever post anything on twitter. Honestly, very few people are actually going to see what I have to say, less will care. Still, though, I agonize over every character until it is exactly perfect. Really, only 12 people follow me and I'm sure very few of them judge, nonetheless read, my tweets. Blogging though seems to be different. I feel much more able to write and not care what others think. I even doubt that many people outside of this class read it. Yet, it is strange to think that people from across the world could be reading and analyzing my every sentence.
This paradoxical cartoon, mocking twitter, makes an excellent point, and to an extent, I agree. It seems to me that most tweeters become so obsessed that they need to share every piece of their lives with the rest of the twitter connected world. This short video, also slightly extreme, plays off of this idea that even on the floor bleeding, a die-hard tweeter will still send those pointless blurbs of too much information into cyberland.
Although I rarely tweet, (I only ever tweet textual clothing as people #putontext) I do get extremely stressed out before I ever post anything on twitter. Honestly, very few people are actually going to see what I have to say, less will care. Still, though, I agonize over every character until it is exactly perfect. Really, only 12 people follow me and I'm sure very few of them judge, nonetheless read, my tweets. Blogging though seems to be different. I feel much more able to write and not care what others think. I even doubt that many people outside of this class read it. Yet, it is strange to think that people from across the world could be reading and analyzing my every sentence.
This paradoxical cartoon, mocking twitter, makes an excellent point, and to an extent, I agree. It seems to me that most tweeters become so obsessed that they need to share every piece of their lives with the rest of the twitter connected world. This short video, also slightly extreme, plays off of this idea that even on the floor bleeding, a die-hard tweeter will still send those pointless blurbs of too much information into cyberland.
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