Before I get to Twitter, I have to say first of all I didn't want to be part of Facebook but my in-laws and friends pressured me to join and now I am hocked. I check the facebook twice a day and just don't check more because the computer at work blocks Facebook website-thank goodness otherwise work would not get done! When I learned I had to open a twitter account and tweet everyday I thought it was going to be one more thing for me to do and check but I have to say it has been a good experience.
I have noticed that most of my tweets are in teleological time in which I tweet about what is going on in school, what I did (manicure, went to a baby shower), what I had for dinner, etc. A few of my tweets are in stellar time, like today I had to get up extra early to take my car to have it serviced and I tweeted something like what was I thinking to schedule such an early appointment; and another time I was feeling down but was trying to be positive so I tweeted that I was going to have a good day.It was interesting to read my peer's tweet, I looked forward to read their posts, but it did not affect me in any way. They did tweet about different things but it was mostly about school.
Borge's The Garden of Forking Paths was not an easy reading for me. First I did not get it, only after our review in class it got clear for me. I think the writer used the stellar time, as I understood, it is about the different ways or paths we can take in our lives. Twitter in some way relates to our paths, we choose what to tweet and that might affect us or others in a way.
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I didn't get the theme by just reading the article by myself. I was thinking that it was a great spy story with a fascinating plot. Although it is weired that a English professor who is a Chinese was a German spy, it is possible to have such coincidence. After the analysis, I learned that the author devise such a story to illustrate time concept, which can be teleological, stellar and chaotic.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that a lot of the things you said also applies to me. I also didn't want a Facebook at first but I'm hooked in every way. It's like a digit iTouch since it has so many applications and you can keep in touch with everyone. I think that Twitter would relate to our paths in that some people would chose to tweet and see what other people are tweeting, rather than chose to do their homework lol
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