For New Media Writing, my professor made us start a blog and a Twitter account. At first, I didn't have a problem keeping up with my blog posts and Twitter updates. I actually kind of enjoy posting these blog entries because they give me a chance to rant and rave about anything I want.
I know the same can be accomplished via a journal so why does a blog seem more appealing? I think, for me, it might be because of the thrill that someone out there might stumble across what I've written, and that person might even care or like what I talk about here.
In the four months I have had a Twitter account, however, I rarely think about it. Any "tweets" I post are more than likely extremely pointless and me complaining about how much I hate Twitter....kind of like this paragraph. I don't like being forced to say what I want in 140 characters or less--that's smaller than a text message. I feel that Twitter is too restricting on expression. I know you can link things via your Twitter page. I'm probably going to link this blog post to my next 'tweet,' but I can't help but question "What's the point?" Why don't I just give people my blog and let them read that instead of being distracted by another thing to click?
So I'll probably end up deleting my Twitter account by the end of the semester; but I might stick around in blogger world and see what I end up with.
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... sorry I just stumbled across your page and wanted to comment on it...
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of Twitter seems to be heading in the direction of a way to help people filter through all the information that they may be interested in. They can identify quickly what they want to read (click on link to blog for more information) and what they don't. It's a headline service.
http://twitter.com/EHHarriman
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