Saturday, October 23, 2010

Twitter and every fork in the road

Today we live in the high-tech world. People have many sources to relieve their stress through the network. I have serial social network's account such as facebook like millions of other users. Facebook offers many features such as chatting with friends, checking their status and playing online games with other people. I also have a Twitter account for the purposes of this class. However Twitter is not my preferred social network.

From my experience with twitter account, I find most of our classmates like to post their daily activities, such as what is going on from day to day, which would put their tweets in teleological time. During the midterm, most peers posted how they study for their midterm. Most students use Twitter as a form of relieve stress from midterm because they don't want to fail the exam. They want to get a good grade by studying hard. Some peers' tweets belong in entropic or chaotic time. Their posting are totally random. I think my tweets are in stellar time. I like to post daily life that affect my emotion, such as how my work-load affects my mood. I’m not really affected by what my peers were writing. But some of our classmate like to post what is going on our class’s assignment, like Genesismiao posted, “Final draft due this Sunday, not tomorrow...” on 10/11/10. When I saw his posting, I started nervous and called other classmates to confirm. Sometimes it is good to see what are others thinking about and what do they do for daily through twitter.

After reading "The Garden of Forking Paths" by Borges, I think his time in stellar time. As I understand it this story indicate there are serial results in the labyrinth. In every forking selection process, the future timeline results in difference dimensions. It leads to totally different scenarios. Some would lead to tragedy; while others would lead to happiness. You have to choose the right path. Otherwise, let fake to guide you. In every turning point, you have to make a decision. Be responsible for your own choice.

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