My professor assigned us to create a twitter account, in which we are expected to post statuses, read what others are saying, and following herself and other classmates. Although i had a twitter before this assignment was given, i barely used it. I feel as though social networking is kind of overrated, me having a facebook, myspace, aim, and bbm can say that.I felt like twitter is just a waste of time and the only reason i have it is because my friends are constantly sending me outrageous party pictures that involves me being a member to see them. If it wasnt for this assignment I probably wouldn't have posted anything. During the twitter project I did realize something very common with alot of other social networks. These common things were people posting things that happen throughout their day and what they hope and want to happen. The assignment asks us to identify what time affects people the most from reading their statuses telelogical, chaotic, and stellar. From the statuses I've read, it seems that stellar time has the most affect on people.
Stellar time consists of intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives. It’s also our past, present, and future being connected. The majority of tweets also had to do with major plans for spring break, summer, going away, and activities they wanted to do and something gets cancelled because something else came up or the weather, ETC. using myself as the first example I post things about things that happen on my way from and to school or work. Attending a party but can’t because the storm that occurred on Saturday. “It’s also raining today. I hate rainy days. Now I can't search for the flying spaghetti monster. 9:44 AM Mar 14th via web," although I am not sure what a spagheti monster is, it"s obvious that because of the rain he can't search it. Another example of chaotic time is " on spring break have nothing to do now cuz the stupid ass rain yo about 15 hours ago via web,” he’s on spring break and obviously had plans but got cancelled or on delayed because the weather we experienced over the weekend. “Think I'm gonna go hit up the gym.... Working out makes me feel better too bad Pilates class was cancelled 6:37 PM Mar 11th via mobile web,” she feels satisfaction from working out at the gym and planned to go that day but couldn’t because of a cancellation.
In conclusion from reading the hypertext reading of Borges text I was able to identify his concentration on time and its many approaches. Although I found it quite confusing it seems that the point he’s trying to convey is having control of the events in our life. He mentioned something’s that remind him of his childhood, things about ancestry, and events that were happening.
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I understand what you are saying. Social media seems overrated because there are a huge amount of them. Each one of them functions the same way as each other.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I agree that some of the tweets were stellar time based, I think your example also show it’s teleological time also. For example, the guy was planning to look for the spaghetti monster which is his beginning purpose. Since the weather ruined it, he couldn’t look for it which is the ending purpose.
Like you, I also found the forking path story a bit confusing. I had to read it a couple of times before I could understand what the man was trying to say.
Yes I agree with you, that social networking are a lot now and basically we can interact with people that we know from this new media. The function are almost the same from one social network to another. But again, for twitter I guess, people seems to put what they are doing in every moment, unlike facebook, its kind of embarasing if every second we posted something in our status.
ReplyDeleteFor the Hypertext, I was confuse too at first but after I readed for a few times I kind of get what the the story is about. Although, in the first time I feel like the story is going on circle, but in my opinion the author is trying to say that we choose our own life, and if our life havent reached the goal that we wanted we should keep on trying and never give up