I never seem to understand why people are so interested in tweeting about their everyday activities. Now that I started to use it, I can see why. Twitter lets their users vent their frustration or share their happiness with the online community. But the same thing can be done with other social medias. Twitter is essentially the same as a blog. The difference is that Twitter only allows a maximum of 140 characters to write your thoughts and events. Generations today don’t want to read anything that contains a lot of words. They want information quick and it to be condensed. Twitter appeals to this generation because all tweets are limited to 140 characters. It’s short and straight to the point. They don't have to read six paragraphs just to see the author's viewpoint/thoughts.
As I was reading every tweet from the people that I follow, I noticed that their lives are examples of teleological time and stellar time. Everybody planned out their weekends. They knew what they were going to spend their time on. What they didn’t expect was the weather. The weather was the intermingling scenario that affected their normal daily activities. Some people had to cancel their plans and find something else to do. Others continued with their activities but the weather forced them to complete it differently than originally planned.
The only thing that disrupted my usual routine was the weather. It was raining the whole weekend. Because of this, there were fewer clients at Baruch Flushing Vita site which results in fewer points. I only got to service four clients netting me a total of five points for the day. Usually, during a sunny day I would get around 12 points. The weather also forced me to stay home most of the time because none of my friends wanted to go outside.
For the story “The Garden of Forking Paths”, it is trying to tell us that the choices we can make are endless. Life itself is an endless loop and the path that we chose to walk will be followed by another set of diverging paths that we have to choose. It is similar to the quote “There is no beginning. There is no end”. I agree with this notion because people are given a set of choices to choose from. The choices people have to face are infinite. For example, after graduating from high school, students are given the choice to either attend college, or find a job. If chose to attend college, then the students will have to choose which field of study they want to specialize. There is no end to the choices we have to make. Every path we take is a new beginning.
Sometimes I find myself running in circles repeating the same thing I did previously. Every week is a repeat of the previous week but with some minor differences. It’s the same routine but the weather, scenery, and the people I encounter are different. Work, classes, hangout, eat, sleep, and wake up. Even though it’s the same, every morning is a new story about my life and every night is the ending.
The picture that u showed us, is funny. I guess many people now seems to use twitter, and its not only for certain people but all the people. Even businesses use twitter to promote their products etcetera. I agree with you that twitter is the place to show our feelings and emotion, and it doesn't have to be a long sentence because the twitter itself only allow us to write on the maximum of 140 characters. I also agree with you that people tends to use twitter in the teological and stellar time, because they planned what they are going to do and have a purposed at the end on what they are doing.
ReplyDeleteFor the hypertext, I agree with you that people choose their way for their life. I like your example that you put students have the choices between attending college or find a job after graduated, because it seems that it really visualized ourself as a student. Personally for me every path I take is my own choice, and whatever I chose is for my own good and I have to remember one thing that I cannot regret which ever path I chose, because thats the life that I'm going to live in.