Twitter, oh twitter. We have sort of a love/hate relationship I think. I never really used it very much before now but knew (basically) what it was about. After using it more frequently and getting more comfortable with it in the last couple of weeks, I have learned how easy it is to use. - I am not a (not so proud?) owner of the twitter app for blackberry. Hey - if you're gonna tweet, why not make it easy.
Here's why there are mixed feelings though; who on earth actually NEEDS to know what you are doing ever second of the day? Yes, I'll admit, it is great to be able to leave little short blurbs about what you're doing, or where you are, or post a picture here and there of something note-able that happened during your day. And yes, it's pretty cool to be able to find out what celebrities and famous people are up to and what things they think are interesting. I almost feel like i'm invading their privacy on some level though, because those people have NO IDEA who I am or what I'm about. Since I have been 'tweeting' more often now, I even have people following me that I have no clue who they are. How weird is that?! I do like that you can kind of 'tag' people in the posts that you make and that I receive notifications or emails when someone has mentioned me in one of their posts.
It is totally different from blogging so many ways. yes it has similar qualities in that you can basically share whatever content you want with a world of people that may or may not know you but twitter is a short, convenient way of getting short updates on people's lives and leaving ones about yours. There is no room for long entries or polls. Just simple posts that can only be a sentence or two.
I think from now on I'll likely use it only when I really feel the need but it is nice to be able to go on the site and quickly get updates from all of your friends on one page to basically see what people are doing with their evenings or what their plans are. Another way of keeping in touch. As if we weren't caught up enough.
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