Twitter and Time

A lot of people said twitter isn’t that useful and not fun at all. However, in my opinion, it’s fun and enjoyment if you use the twitter as an information machine. You will actually happy that you are part of the information provider here, too. There’s another reason why I say twitter is fun and useful. By using twitter, you will find out people’ different personality on time management. They always fall into teleological time, stellar time and entropic time.

For me, I mostly fall into teleological and entropic time. As teleological time, I always post what my morning activity is and how I ended the day. Maybe, I complain about the homework and assignments I need to do and didn’t do it and ended with a low score on midterms. Sometimes I would say, “What a beautiful day” in the morning, “The day becomes boring after attending a few classes” in afternoon, “What a day, so tired” in evening, and ended with, “Looking forward to tomorrow” at night. As for chaotic time, I often feel that there’s no meaning in our lives. I am not sure others, but sometimes, I happen to be like this. I was staring at the computer knowing I have a lot to do but don’t know which parts I should start. Because of this feeling, I was posting random stuffs on twitter. For example, “blank blank blank”, “me 2”, or “arrr ……..” Sort of posts like that.

Most of my friends’ posts would fall into teleological time. Some of my classmates post like this, “I should get an extra credit for being the first one to do the assignment”, “3:11 too late”, “Just finished the assignment, the reading is difficult”, “need to finish writing an assignment”, and sort of like that. We are posting the “cause and effect” posts. Because of this, I feel that way. Because of that, this happens. All sorts of based on the teleological time. Surprising, most of the posts are about their daily and school lives.

I think the Garden of Forking Paths trying to tell us that life is a circle where whatever action you do will lead to one another. A lot of students think they are so stressful about the workloads they need to do during the undergraduate. Therefore, they want to finish as soon as possible, get a job, and out of a stress. What they don’t realize is that by the time they get a job, the action, they are going to get more stress, which will lead back to previous circle, being stressful. They are more stressful because they will eventually have a family to take care of and they need to focus more on the job, otherwise, they chances are they will get fired. Therefore, it just leads back to the way they are.

I also think this story is about chaotic time. There are a lot of actions in here. It’s so chaotic that I can’t follow at first. I like the way Albert said. At the end of the story, he said, “’In contrast to Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in a uniform, absolute time. He believed in an infinite series of time, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel time”. The infinite time can be proved that there’s a lot entropic time going on where lives’ events are totally random and there’s no meaning to lives.