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Melanie Erickson
March 26, 2009
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Social Aspects of Twitter
Tweeting has been around since October 2006, it has been a relatively new way of communicating. In the last 2 years it has grown dramatically because of the simplicity, and the fact that it only has 140 characters it is easy to read and does not take too much of your time. People are crying out for help in life. They need to feel acceptance with piers and friends. People find new ways to feel alive in their everyday world, Today’s society has become fast pass and there is no time to sit and relax any more. There are just not enough hours in the day to get things done: because of this people feel like they have to keep in touch and involved in people’s lives in new and faster ways. If they do not then they get sucked up in the day to day patterns of work, school, kid’s schedules, and the chores that need to be done every day. Micro blogging such as twitter breaks up this mandarin of life and brings people together in new ways.
The benefit of tweeting is that it is easy to follow once you get used to it. Writing a blog does not take too much of your time. The flexibility of connecting it to other devices makes it convenient to tweet anywhere and not just at the computer. Because it is flexible to any devices, people of all income levels and education have access to tweeter. If people put it on the cell phone then it just at their fingertips.
Every one is tweeting it has become the newest communication of today. News media are tweeting to get information from their audience, to find out what they have to think about a topic. The rating has gone up since they put this new interactive technology into their show. People now days feel the need to voice their opinions and be a part of something bigger than themselves. Tweeting has helped the news media to combine this theory, and take an advantage of bringing themselves to the new concept of interactive T.V.
People are able to stay in touch with friends and families because of tweeting. People can post internet links and information that they want to share. Upload pictures, music, jokes and interesting facts, and send the link to friends and families on twitter for everyone to enjoy. It also gives a special awareness of where your friends are. When people have a visual map of what others are doing it bring them closer to friends and makes each other not feel a alone when they are actually doing something by themselves. Such as taking a coffee break at Starbucks sitting at the table for one you can open your phone and tweet to someone it feels like they are next to you having a cup of coffee right there with you.
The fact that it only has 140 characters per tweet allows people to really think about what they want to say. People cannot be long winded and say everything. The return time for communication is almost immediately. Conversations back and forth with people are convenient for the busy people that do not have time to sit on the phone all day and still feel close and not isolated to there every day work. People like to feel a part of other people’s lives even when they are not able to, Tweeting allows this kind of communication and friendship building to happen for them.
Micro blogging has brought families closer together; it is the new dinner table in our society. Families are now going opposite directions in their everyday life and do not have the time to sit at the same dinner table as much as they want to. People are working more with jobs that are extending their business hours from the traditional 9-5 to 6- midnight or even some cases 24 hours. Husband and wives have to work opposite shifts to avoid the coast of daycare. Twitter has brought families closer in the fact that they are able to communicate with families when they are unable to be together. Children do not have to feel like they are walking aimlessly in the world because they have no way of getting a hold of parents, or other family members during the day. They have micro blogging that allows child and parent to stay in touch when they are not physically able to.
Twitter is one of the fastest growing micro blogs of today. It has brought people that would have never met in a traditional setting together, builds bonds between families, and breaks up the boredom of everyday life. Twitter put the dinner table back in family’s lives in a whole new way.
Work Cited
Jones, Ron. Twitter 101 part 1, Search Engine Watch. March 30, 2009. March 30, 2009. http://searchenginewatch.com/3633223
Huberman, Bernardo, Daniel M. Remero, Fang Wu. “Social Networks that Matter: Twitter Under the Microscope”. First Monday peer-reviewed Journal on the Internet. Volume 14, Number 1-5 January 2009. March 27, 2009.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/twitter/twitter.pdf
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