Twitter & Hypertext

1. Teleological time effects most of us because we pretty much have our day planned unless something unexpected happens. I think twitter was a pretty nice experiment. at first I was hesitant and did not know what to write until I saw some people posting. I have to admit i went back on it more than I thought I would, it was interesting to me to know what other people were doing at that time. I did find some posts I could relate to, for example, the ones about midterms. Also, although my day was boring as a result of work or schoolwork, I did not get to post much. I think twitter is a little similar to facebook and myspace but I tried to be pretty casual and straight forward with my posts. Also, twitter can be a very useful tool to interact with your professors and classmates. It is surely better in my opinion than e-mail and we should continue twitter till the end of the semester. I think most of us get discouraged at first because we think its pointless or something of that sort but it really is not. This way we kind of get to know one another a little better and we don't have to be careful about being casual or professional so it shows peoples actual personalities or close to it.
   
2. Borges hypertext activity was pretty confusing to me, I found myself running in circles the entire time. I think it was purposely designed to be that way. I think the author's point was to show us that life keeps moving forward and even the smallest of decisions can effect our future. Also, I think the author was trying to teach us not to have regrets in life and to deal with whatever happens, learn from it, and keep moving forward. I must admit I was attracted to violent words such as revolver and murder because to me violent stories and movies are interesting and fun, I like "action". This could mean that I am attracted to violence which I think is not such a good thing. I do think the suggested 15 minutes were not enough time, I probably spent about a half hour because I was so confused.