I have never been into the whole social networking sites like myspace or facebook. I do admit i have a facebook account but not to the point where i have to check it every few minutes. I don't see the point in these types of site. I only use it to ask to people if they want to hangout or go shoot some pool and that mostly it. When I heard my friend talking about Twitter it seems to be the most ridiculous thing ever. I thought no one want to hear about my daily routine or me wanting to know about my friends'.
After I've read the "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live" article in Time magazine; I might have change my opinion about Twitter. I have no idea how popular Twitter is around the world. Political leader and higher up ranking people are using it as well. I think Twitter is a good thing in a way since we can watch or read update on current events around the world and don’t have to rely on TV or wait till the newspaper writes about it. In the article they talked about how the followers can discuss the topic as the debates goes on in real time. I think that gets us as the audience a voice and can talk about our opinion instead of being on the outside and only reading the news or watching the TV.
Another thing they talked about in the article was how people are using Twitter as a resource searching spot for current events instead of Google. That is freaking amazing to me seeing how I thought Twitter was a pointless site. I might have to use twitter to search on some current events so that I’m up to date on the things going around the world and be ready for those quizzes lol. Like the old saying u just can’t judge a book by its cover.
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