Actually this post is about how obnoxious our world has become in communicating with each other. So much so that when we pick up the phone or meet in person it feels so old school....but why at the same time do I love it?
I love the fact that I can be sitting in my bed on facebook and a facebook chat will pop up from my life long friend Ben in Ghana, Africa. I haven't seen him in three years and talking on the phone is way too expensive but through facebook it's free. He is studying at school and has free use of the computer...its amazing.
What I do not like though is not hearing about a get together with friends while I'm hanging out with those friends in person because one of my "friends" facebooked it to me. So meanwhile a week later after that hangout, I'm at home by myself wondering what all my friends are doing and they're all out at an awesome new jazz club because they decided to click attending. Awesome. Not an actual event that I'm passively aggressively posting about BUT lets be honest...its totally happened to us before!
But I do love that on Twitter I can Tweet something about a celebrity or well known icon and they can tweet me back. Which practically means I just had a conversation with John Quinones from ABC right! It is a cyber tie that is bringing the lower class into communication with royalty ;)
I rarely go on Twitter and the only reason I even got a Twitter was to follow the whole 'Rob Bell' topic. All of the interesting point of views were being talked about on Twitter and I was irritated I couldn't just read about it in a normal paper. SO I caved and made a Twitter account.
I do think a lot but I don't often find that I have 140 characters of something that I desperately need the world to hear. Most of the time I just use Twitter to tell the world I put up a new blog post...like this one. Its on my Twitter. Right now. Which brings up a new question. Is the past tense of Tweeting something Twat? Because lets be honest, using that in a sentence regularly would be awesome!
So thats it. All I really wanted to do is write something based off of my witty title I made up. I felt so proud of myself when I made that joke with friends over the past weekend. All I kept thinking was this is definitely going to become a real phrase in the near future...just you wait.
3 comments:
I think that social media is the worlds way of repairing human to human communication when all its doing is in some ways breaking it down even more.
I think that people need to un plug sometimes. Do we? Rarely. Will we ever? Probably not. Is this answering your question. Not so much.
To answer your question, whats the past tense of tweet, well its 'tweeted'
Did you see what Ke$ha tweeted a ew hours ago? No? its probably for the better.
See. "tweeted", twatted is more fun though.
hey jaxxxx
lets trend that please: #idtwatthat.
ohhhh, btw, you forgot to mention that another reason you got a twitter was because i have one and you cant stand to be without my witty thoughts for more than a couple of days <3
-your favorite sister. yes. you can print that ;]
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