We see the same thing when looking at @LianaBee81, she speaks mostly of specific events in her life as they are happening. For example, "Lost in the city . . . " and "It's time to watch TV!". Truly exciting stuff.
There is however, a bit of stellar time's influence spread throughout. For example Liana says "Thank god there is an erase button". That button is of course there (as Liana acknowledges), only because some twitter programmer decided that twitter actually needed an erase button! They could have left it out, and Liana would be stuck with whatever tweet she found embarrassing, remaining totally public.
On the other hand, we have the way time effects me. When I look at my twitter page, I can't help but notice that I tweet in a vastly different way from how the rest of the class seems to. I tweet almost exclusively about what I'm thinking, interesting quotes, and other ideas and/or concepts. I don't really tweet much at all about what I'm doing , unless it's something particularly interesting or relevant to my followers, like going to see a particular band perform, or working on editing a new batch of photos.
Thus, my twitter is much more stellar-time based. This is stellar time, because the ideas I post tend to be directly related to whatever I'm going through at the time. If I'm feeling particularly anti-theist on a certain day (a common occurrence for a militant atheist such as myself), I won't say "I'm feeling particularly anti-theist today". I'll tweet a Richard Dawkins quote I find interesting, or poke fun at the belief in god in general.
I attempted to access the hypertext Borges reading, but the page was apparently missing. See here: http://imgur.com/RmTl4
If I had to choose which type of time affects me the most, I'd choose teleological time because I believe that a certain act will eventually lead to another act or event. For example, if I accidentally dropped a quarter near the sewers and someone walking by decides to pick it up. And then this person drops his or her phone in the sewers. I believe that if I hadn't dropped my quarter, they wouldn't have dropped their phone into the sewers. I believe that life is all connected in this enormously large web that connects all events together in some way.
ReplyDeleteBefore this assignment, I had never used Twitter before. In fact, I tried to stay away from most social media websites other than Facebook. I found twitter to be useless and unrewarding. Facebook helped me stay in touch with classmates for academic purposes as well as for old friends to say hi. But now after using Twitter for about a week I can see the aspects of it that give it the reputation that it has. Twitter shows me more about what people think and feel throughout their daily lives and I can actually get their insight and perspective of their lives. After reading many twitter posts over the past week I saw a lot of gloomy posts. I noticed that people posted more often about how stressed they were and the negative aspects of their daily lives. Stress is extremely common during these times of the year because of midterms and jobs and it shows within the twitter posts.
After reading Borge's "Garden of Forking Paths" text I can tell that this story is more of teleological time except there are multiple situations. The story itself is interesting. I didn't expect Yu Tsun to kill Stephen Albert after he told him the answer to a question he's had his entire life. The story that Albert told was about the garden of forking paths. This garden symbolized the idea that when there was a choice of different outcomes, both outcomes would happen. I can tell that the author wanted to express the idea that there are multiple outcomes in life and we're just living in one of them. The idea that we could see the results of each outcome is impossible but the author made it possible in this story.