“What is Twitter?” After Professor asked us to open a Twitter account, this question appeared in my mind immediately. Actually, I never use Twitter before. If I don’t take this class, I won’t have this chance to know about Twitter. During these days’ experiences about using Twitter, I realize that Twitter becomes a useful tool in people’s life and also affects life. People like posing their status through twitter, which means twitter is a good place for people to express emotions such as happy, sad, and exciting, depress and so on. Maybe some people think using twitter is a wasting of time, because there is no purpose or meaning to life. But I am really interested in it now, and even get used to it already. For example, when midterm is coming, I always feel stress and nervous. How can I release my emotional tension? I know there are various ways, like talking to friends, exercising and eating. After I tried many ways, I found that using twitter is the soonest way. I can express my emotion during any time. This is the way how twitter affects my life and also my status will affect others at the same time; on the contrary, others also affect me. It can be considered as stellar time, which I think is the type of time most influences people. For example, people complain a lot this weekend because of the bad weather; many classmates feel tired because of their homework and tweet at least twice a day because this is a requirement. The other two types--- teleological time and chaotic time are seldom appeared in Twitter. I don’t think people like posting their status in a liner time everyday or tweeting something without purpose.
I also observe that people like using cyber language rather than written language when they tweet. Some words are really popular such as LOL, FML, OMG and etc. Those words make our posts more funny and simple.
The Garden of Forking Paths reminds me to think of a religious word “samsara”, which means life is coming again and again. This is almost the same point of view in the hyper text which is time and events can be circular. Maybe also seems like the infinity numbers and infinity universe. The other thing which I am really interested in is life is choices. “When a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others”, I am strongly agree with the author said. In our daily life, we always have to make choices. Different choices make different results; even a choice can change a person’s life. As a normal human being, what can I do is thinking twice before I act and trying not to regret about the choice I made before. If you want to achieve your goals as soon as possible, remember don’t look back, just look forward!
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Yes~ I also think that if I did not take this class, I could not try twitter. Besides, many people internet language because there is very limited space to write something, so naturally people try to shorten some words. The twitter could be wasting of time, but if anyone uses the twitter usefully, it would be good method not only to get to know people, also express myself in different ways with actual life. Also, as you said, people are not likely to tweet following linear time, but people have some tendency to be instant and spontaneous
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