Twitter and Time

Twitter is one of the most popular and fastest growing social websites around and being on twitter was at first a sort of weird experience. Here was I reading about not only what my friends were up to or doing but also about what people I’ve never met were doing or experiencing in their daily lives all around the world. What struck me most of all was the great emotional bond we all share. No matter where you are or who you are, we are after all the same. In our daily lives we go through at the same or different times the same emotions - joy, sadness, worry and we all ultimately search for love. We want to be loved. And as such we are affected by what happen in and around us. Our state of happiness and sadness are indeed depends on what happen around us. When a close relative or friend is sad or happy, I too share the sadness or happiness. And this is strongly manifested on twitter. As I go through the daily updates from my friends and close ones I experience different emotional states. Thus in a way being on twitter we are actually governed to a large extent by stellar time. Our state of being depends on the intermingling of events in our daily lives. The other day I decided to go on a picnic trip with my cousin who lives in a nearby block. I was in a very high spirit and looking forward to the trip. While waiting for my cousin I decided to browse on the net. Alas! The first update I saw on twitter was a warning for picnic goers to be more alert as a body of a girl who had gone on a picnic trip was found that very morning. My mood straight away took a downward flight. We were so upset about it that in the end we had to cancel the trip. If I had not read that piece of news at that time we’d probably have had a joyful experience that day. That is stellar time for you. One can’t escape it.
The hypertext like time is beyond a definite comprehension. It can be subjected to different interpretations. We all in our different ways give definite meaning to our times. Time in itself has no beginning nor an end as the hypertext is. Time can be our enemy as well as our friend. In the end it all depends on how best we make use of the time available to us. The designer was trying to portray the timelessness of time. It has been there, it is there now and it will always be there, irrespective of what we actually go through.