Saturday, March 20, 2010

Obsessed by social networks in the digital world

Nowadays you can't even sneeze without somebody reporting on it and posting it on some sort

of media tool that is available for free and easy accessible for whoever is interested in the life of

others.

My big problem with these social networks, and in particularly with the "status line" on Facebook

or the Tweet is that in 99.9% of the cases I am not interested in what these people have to say.

To be very honest, I have more people on my Facebook account that are really my friends, and

for that reason I'm not following up after them regularly, the people/friends/family that I really care

about are most likely to get a call from me, a massage, or a personal email to catch up and see how

are they doing. I can't say it more boldly; tweets, status updates and random statements are not

my cup of tea. But I must admit that what does interest me is the social affect of these networks

and how do people react to these posts. I think that in the world of unrestricted twittering (referring to

the rules we were suppose to follow while submitting our posts), the tweets are all about the “stellar time”

meaning, the people who posts on themselves, the one who respond to these posts, or just read them,

are constantly influenced by them with a direct relationship. You post because you want to be heard,

because you wish to arise a topic that you believe it’s important enough for other people to know about.

This kind of thinking is the exact expression for modern technology communication, borders are down,

you are no longer swimming in your neighborhood pool, or if you’d like, the ocean became your pool if

you didn’t notice.

With my twitter experience, I did derive ideas out of other people posts, but the pattern of stellar time

is more blur and sometimes slide into the randomness of an entropic time. But only because of our

restrictions, who made the task of posting more challenging then the ordinary twitting process.

A positive thing I find in twittering is the notion you get about your life in comparison to others. You may

think that you have nothing in common with a class mate, but when posting your own thoughts or

happenings you discover that many of your interests or views are alike.

I do not think I’ll stick around twitter a lot, but I did learn something new and an interesting lesson.

Tweet, tweet, hurray.

Dror

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