The title of this article already describes what this article is about. The author first describes how it is a terrible first impression in his opinion due to the tools or features provided by twitter. Followed by the next point the author points out, which is “ambient awareness” which are users twitting about mundane things online to their extended followers which gives followers a sense of satisfaction feeling they are somewhat closer to that person as they know what that person does daily or feels daily.
The author then mentions that, the most fascinating is “not what Twitter does to us, but what we do to Twitter.” Although I strongly agree in certain context of what people do to the media instead of what the media does to people. However here, I disagree. In my personal opinion, Twitter is designed in a manner that limits you in a couple of sentences at most due to the fear of attention span. With these restrictions, there is not much as to what the users can do with Twitter, am I right?
An in this new culture of attention getting users, of cause this medium will be used as another way to gain more attention from blog’s, Friedster, Facebook and so on. However must say that, Facebook is slowly becoming like Twitter whereby users constantly update their status with limited sentences.
In my opinion, Twitter is a good invention next to Facebook, the reason I say this is because the creators of these sites have been able to understand their target audience so well to the point they predicted how we would react, what we would use it for and how.
(The statistic shows the increase of users from 2007 to 2009 in Twitter)
From Facebook, we have come to notice that our culture today are becoming more of an attention seeker or perhaps suffering from narcissistic behavior. The creator of Twitter was obviously well aware of this and created something which would be another platform to “feed” to our satisfaction.
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