Twitter and different types of Times
Except facebook and myspace, twitter is another popular and fastest growing social networking that used by many people. However, twitter is not as well known as facebook or myspace, most people don’t hear about it before, including me. I’m new to twitter, before this I didn’t know what twitter is about. After signing up as a member, I find out it is another type of social networking service that enables people to post or read messages of each others. The messages which we post or read are called tweets. The maximum of a tweet is limited at 140 characters. Because of it’s simple and useful forms. Twitter has so many followers following it.
After a few days of using twitter to post and read others posts, I found out normally most of people are live in teleological time. In our life time, each of us has our own purpose and goal to achieve. So we all follow one kind of schedule which can leads us to make it become true. From the tweets that post by other classmates, most of them are about school and work, and assignment that need to be done. People also post special event that happen to them or to others. For instance, they tweet a lot about the horrible weather we have last week. Because of this many people’s normal life schedule has been affected. In this kind of situation, we can say we also live in stellar time. Chaotic time is not very often exists in our lives, for I didn’t see many posts fall in that categorist.
The hypertext of Borges’ the garden of forking paths is very difficult to understand. It talks about times in our lives. For me, it’s like there are many paths in our lives, each one looks the same to u; however, if you walked inside it, every one is different. We all don’t know which one is easier or better for us unless we choose one and walk to the end.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
OPEN DOORS AND TWITTER
Just take a moment, and imaging yourself getting cook on a pressure cooker? Can you?
From my own way of thinking, I think the majority of 99% population are under pressure no matter what is there profession, culture, religions. Today's world time is a very big factor for everyone. For example, I am Married women also a mother. My life is very different then other 95% students in colleges. Then third is work. Need to work to survive. In addition, work for every day's expanse. Now i will move to twitter. Twitter! Yes Twitter the adventure web place. The first time i heard about twitter from our professor. I actually did not have any idea about twitter. The first time I heard about Twitter I thought it is like a messenger. But, it is not. Any way, our professor explains that what we can do on Twitter.
For couple of years i was detach from study and technologies. Now, I am back to study again. But, now I am trying to catch up with new technologies and a lot of new websites. Twitter is the most relaxing place for me. More likely, I can relive my pressure on Twitter. Now that i have Twitter account and i am trying to using it. I feel very comfortable. The interesting part is, I can also see other peoples are writing about their every days activities. Also, how horrible were the weather was. More important, there is no time limit. I can use it anytime is convenient for me. Finally, about "Forking paths Hypertext". I actually had to read it more then 3 times to understand this story. What i have understood is there are lot of doors are open but you need to choose the right door to exit. The reason, each door will take you different places. If you choose wrong door to walk out, you will be going back and forth. In addition, miss using your time. So, you need to choose the right path and make it matters.
From my own way of thinking, I think the majority of 99% population are under pressure no matter what is there profession, culture, religions. Today's world time is a very big factor for everyone. For example, I am Married women also a mother. My life is very different then other 95% students in colleges. Then third is work. Need to work to survive. In addition, work for every day's expanse. Now i will move to twitter. Twitter! Yes Twitter the adventure web place. The first time i heard about twitter from our professor. I actually did not have any idea about twitter. The first time I heard about Twitter I thought it is like a messenger. But, it is not. Any way, our professor explains that what we can do on Twitter.
For couple of years i was detach from study and technologies. Now, I am back to study again. But, now I am trying to catch up with new technologies and a lot of new websites. Twitter is the most relaxing place for me. More likely, I can relive my pressure on Twitter. Now that i have Twitter account and i am trying to using it. I feel very comfortable. The interesting part is, I can also see other peoples are writing about their every days activities. Also, how horrible were the weather was. More important, there is no time limit. I can use it anytime is convenient for me. Finally, about "Forking paths Hypertext". I actually had to read it more then 3 times to understand this story. What i have understood is there are lot of doors are open but you need to choose the right door to exit. The reason, each door will take you different places. If you choose wrong door to walk out, you will be going back and forth. In addition, miss using your time. So, you need to choose the right path and make it matters.
Twitter syndrome
In these days, the twitter is one of most popular web entertainments and communication system. Through this media, people express how or what they feel and think at a specific moment. Especially, twitter is a one’s certain different area independently separated in time and dimension, so these distinctness enable people to be free in speaking their inside.
Also, twitter effects to people in terms of a stream of time. So to speak, a basic greeting or a certain description at the specific time is one of chronological time in twitter. In the morning some people talk about how they sleep at last night. For examples, Minaraakter said, “Time change didn't start too good for me. Slept late and half a day is gone and I have so much in my list to finish”, and Vincentvinh said, “wake up.......have spent long hours in bed...”,
Mina and Vincent posted this in the morning after wake up. A usual reply for this tweet is just similarly talking about sleep or today’s plans.
Other common factors of tweet are weather; it can be defined as entropy or chaotic time. During last two days, it winded and greatly. Some people mentioned about the weather a lot. For examples, Vincentcinh said posted that “it is not rain, it is hella storm in NYC, ruin my umbrella for nothing.” At this time, actually there was a lot of rain and gust of wind, so Vincent complained about the weather.
In the category of entropy or chaotic time, exams effected to people a lot, and it made pretty heavy burdens and concerns. Saloveu said that “same thing here, my equation is 2 midterm+2 papers=madness”, Ginnyjiang said, “Finally finish my Philosophy test! I can have a good sleep la!”, and Mina posted that “I have two midterm next week. I need to hit the highest grade, so expecting all of your wishes. May I?” Besides, during the exam period, some concerns of the exams were very common topic.
Stellar time is a one of factor when people see or experience something unusual or unexpected. Alisha’s tweet showed funny happening. She said, “LMFAO!! dis lady on the train is scratching da hell out of her va jay jay lmfao n then smells her hand ughh smh (crabs)”, it was really shocking, and she seemed to feel disgusting. Also, among my tweets, I said that I went to play tennis but, suddenly the racket club was black out. Both examples show the sudden events effect to people.
Entirely, the chaotic or entropy time was mostly affect to me because I was not on the twitter all the time, so I posted some specific events rather than just general chronological events. Most positive effect is that the twitter makes a connection between people to be intimate, so that is why people are very addicted a lot. But for smart phone users, some addiction can happen, for me (just normal phone user), it does not look so interesting.
Also, twitter effects to people in terms of a stream of time. So to speak, a basic greeting or a certain description at the specific time is one of chronological time in twitter. In the morning some people talk about how they sleep at last night. For examples, Minaraakter said, “Time change didn't start too good for me. Slept late and half a day is gone and I have so much in my list to finish”, and Vincentvinh said, “wake up.......have spent long hours in bed...”,
Mina and Vincent posted this in the morning after wake up. A usual reply for this tweet is just similarly talking about sleep or today’s plans.
Other common factors of tweet are weather; it can be defined as entropy or chaotic time. During last two days, it winded and greatly. Some people mentioned about the weather a lot. For examples, Vincentcinh said posted that “it is not rain, it is hella storm in NYC, ruin my umbrella for nothing.” At this time, actually there was a lot of rain and gust of wind, so Vincent complained about the weather.
In the category of entropy or chaotic time, exams effected to people a lot, and it made pretty heavy burdens and concerns. Saloveu said that “same thing here, my equation is 2 midterm+2 papers=madness”, Ginnyjiang said, “Finally finish my Philosophy test! I can have a good sleep la!”, and Mina posted that “I have two midterm next week. I need to hit the highest grade, so expecting all of your wishes. May I?” Besides, during the exam period, some concerns of the exams were very common topic.
Stellar time is a one of factor when people see or experience something unusual or unexpected. Alisha’s tweet showed funny happening. She said, “LMFAO!! dis lady on the train is scratching da hell out of her va jay jay lmfao n then smells her hand ughh smh (crabs)”, it was really shocking, and she seemed to feel disgusting. Also, among my tweets, I said that I went to play tennis but, suddenly the racket club was black out. Both examples show the sudden events effect to people.
Entirely, the chaotic or entropy time was mostly affect to me because I was not on the twitter all the time, so I posted some specific events rather than just general chronological events. Most positive effect is that the twitter makes a connection between people to be intimate, so that is why people are very addicted a lot. But for smart phone users, some addiction can happen, for me (just normal phone user), it does not look so interesting.
After using twitter for a few days, I have to admit that I am getting the hang of it and…as much as this kills me to admit…enjoying it. I have always been the “anti-twitter” person among my group of friends. I believed that twitters were only necessary and interesting if you were a celebrity or a musician in which case other people actually cared where you were, what you were doing and with whom you were doing it with. Why would anyone care that I was in central park with my friend? Why would anyone care that I’m excited for spring break? Why would anyone care that I’m in class? (Not that I would be twittering in class…) However, I have found that I have used twitter more so as a creative outlet for myself rather than a 411-rundown of my life. When I’m up at 4 in the morning because I drank too many cups of coffee and there’s no one to talk to…I can update my twitter. When I’m dreading going to the gym and no one wants to hear me complain…I can update my twitter. Not that twitter will talk back to me or make me feel any better, but it does allow me to put my thoughts out into the universe when I want and how I want (as long as my thoughts don’t exceed 140 characters.)
The type of time that most influences my life based on twitter is definitely entropic or chaotic time. The time that I tweeted varied from day-to-day. The events that I tweeted about were completely random. However, the type of time that I saw most influenced others’ lives based on twitter was a mix between entropic or chaotic time and stellar time. Some people would tweet about they were feeling (stressed, excited, anxious, sad, ect.) and others (the majority, actually) tweeted about the weather.
Twitter for Time
I have had a twitter account for quite some time now. The only difference between then and now is that before I used to only use it to follow celebrities and to know what they are doing at this exact moment. I had always found this quite amusing and interesting. When this assignment came along I was finally forced to post my own statuses, gain followers of my own, and read other people’s statuses that may not be as extravagant as a celebrity’s would have been. This, I must say, has grown quite addicting and all I want now is to gain more followers and tweet to the world!
I really enjoyed reading the tweets of my fellow classmates. It had given me insight as to what their personalities were like, as well as their priorities and daily activities. I did observe that the types of time that affected these people were both teleological and stellar. It was teleological because of the many tweets about the weather and what people were doing as a result of it. For example it was raining so no one was doing a fun outdoor activity as opposed to it being 60 degree weather weekend which many people would like to go out and enjoy. The stellar time that I observed had to do with the weather also as well as it involving school work. It had seemed like the weather was affecting everyone’s activities and moods. For the most part everyone was upset about the weather. This was either because of cancelled plans, scenery in general, commute conditions or just not being able to make plans because of the rain and instead being stuck at home. I, unlike most of the classmates, actually liked that weather for the most part. It was soothing to hear the rain and see people scrambling around in the rain. Many of my fellow classmates also complained about school work. It either had to do with there being a lot of it or just not feeling up to doing it. In both cases I sympathized and agreed.
In the story “Path of the Forking Path”, I think that the author intended for us to realize that as time goes on in the world we can make anything happen. The world is not predetermined and there are countless outcomes that can occur based on our actions. I believe that this story is describing stellar time. The author did have me running to circles trying to understand what was going on. At the end the whole story comes together and you begin to understand what was going on the whole time. When it came to language I became drawn to military or warfare terms since I began seeing a common trend. There was a lot of words dealing with being in a war or fighting or in his case being a spy. What this says about me is that I like to look for common traits and behaviors to understand something. If it is done a lot, then chances are it’s important.
Time and Time Again
Time. We have heard, read, seen and experienced many types of time. Our three main types of time, are they independent of each other, or do they all in fact work dependently? Time, like anything based in science, is truly subjective. This poses a real challenge in trying to dissect our lives into these theories of time.
Most of us have somewhat predictable lives. We have our general schedule (especially considering that we are all students). In this instance, we generally all fall under teleological time. We go through our days, from one action or event to the next. This leads us to our degree, our promotion, our calling, etc.
As we saw last week, it does not come without disruptions. The weather disrupted our schedules and our routines, throwing a good portion of us into what some would consider chaos. But we have all heard of “weather patterns.” Arguably, one could argue that everything, no matter how “chaotic” it seems upon initial view, falls into a pattern. If this is true, then does entropic time truly exist on its own? Something can be said to the old verbiage, “Expect the unexpected.”
Somewhere in the middle lies stellar time. How many of us recognize the “random” situations in our daily lives, and the short to long term effects it has on them? But I wonder, is it random? Our mindset does in fact affect our interactions and their consequences. Does this once again fall into an intermediary of patterns and chaos that seem to somehow all work together?
I suppose I’ve raised more questions than answers. Time, to me, has no answer. It is mysterious and far beyond modern human conception. Physicists all over the world and over multiple centuries have tried to answer this. These three types of time to me are indicative of Western thought. No one’s life will ever fit mostly, or somewhat, into any of these three. For in reality, we are a constant cycle of all three.
The question remains - is time chaotic chronology, or a pattern of chaos? If there is one thing that The Garden of Forking Paths made me question, it is our one or the other mentality. We can, do, and continue to exist in many different ways. I believe, like the text, we exist in an all AND none environment, simultaneously.
Most of us have somewhat predictable lives. We have our general schedule (especially considering that we are all students). In this instance, we generally all fall under teleological time. We go through our days, from one action or event to the next. This leads us to our degree, our promotion, our calling, etc.
As we saw last week, it does not come without disruptions. The weather disrupted our schedules and our routines, throwing a good portion of us into what some would consider chaos. But we have all heard of “weather patterns.” Arguably, one could argue that everything, no matter how “chaotic” it seems upon initial view, falls into a pattern. If this is true, then does entropic time truly exist on its own? Something can be said to the old verbiage, “Expect the unexpected.”
Somewhere in the middle lies stellar time. How many of us recognize the “random” situations in our daily lives, and the short to long term effects it has on them? But I wonder, is it random? Our mindset does in fact affect our interactions and their consequences. Does this once again fall into an intermediary of patterns and chaos that seem to somehow all work together?
I suppose I’ve raised more questions than answers. Time, to me, has no answer. It is mysterious and far beyond modern human conception. Physicists all over the world and over multiple centuries have tried to answer this. These three types of time to me are indicative of Western thought. No one’s life will ever fit mostly, or somewhat, into any of these three. For in reality, we are a constant cycle of all three.
The question remains - is time chaotic chronology, or a pattern of chaos? If there is one thing that The Garden of Forking Paths made me question, it is our one or the other mentality. We can, do, and continue to exist in many different ways. I believe, like the text, we exist in an all AND none environment, simultaneously.
Twitter Mania
Before using Twitter, I had the misconception that Twitter was for people who wanted to step out of their own lives, and just get a minor taste of someone else’s life. Are people just prying or is there really something about twitter that I’m not seeing. After using it for weeks, I have become immersed in the external world that I never knew about and while I use it more frequently, I start feel like I have super powers and I can be at multiple places at one time. At one moment I can get a mental picture of Jolanta walking to the subway in the rain and at the same time I can see Andrew sitting in a lecture hall taking a theatre final. This all seems like useless information that is just polluting our brains but really, this innovation is a powerful tool that affects the time of other individuals who hear your cyber voice. In the end, I realized that stellar time is the culprit for influencing other people’s lives and even my own.
Stellar time is greatly responsible for influencing the lives of many including my own. Throughout my recent experiences, based on what people have posted on their twitter account, my daily plans have been altered. This past weekend the weather was the worst and it rained for 4 days straight. On top of the torrential downpour, people were posting messages about going to the gym, which inspired me to start getting into shape. I recently got a gym membership because of the post and in addition another person stated that they attended a party and there were a lot of girls. This made me believe that I should improve my image.
Stellar time changes life completely. Last week there was a serious accident on the number six train. I follow many people on twitter and I found out that a speeding train had killed a girl. The girl had dropped her bag in the tracks as the train was approaching and decided to jump into the tracks and retrieve the bag on her own. This obviously was a poor decision but in the end the downtown train that I needed to ride in order to get home was suspended for a while. This one incident had an affect on all the people at the next subway stations. Everyone’s lives were delayed because of this one incident, which is exactly how stellar time works. Instead of taking the six train, I was forced to take an alternate train.
The hypertext Forks Path was very interesting and time was twisted throughout the story. I believe that the designer of the story wanted to teach readers that time has a way of working itself out and I believe that the author wanted to show us that time is related to fate. I’m saying this because in the end of the story the main character, the spy, ended up completing his task and relaying the message he wanted to send to Germany without the any suspicion. He gave up his freedom but the main character no matter what obstacles were in his way, completed the task without even realizing it at the time. I didn’t find myself running in circles throughout the story and I believe the whole story was like a cat and mouse hunt. Out of all the words throughout the story, the word that was most appealing was the wordlessly. For some reason this word sounded strange but expressed so much at the same time. I wanted to start using this word but it seems like a tongue twister. I think that this word may mean that my personality isn’t as clean cut as I may portray it to be. A book shouldn’t be judged by its cover. This word seems like an easy word but its quite complex and difficult to say out loud.
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