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"On occasion I would post something I was doing that was maybe different from my routine or something I thought others may find interesting, but on the whole I was absent from proceedings on Twitter. To account for this, I would put down two factors, the first of which is that I am not at all inclined to compulsively throw information out to the four winds."
"The disjointed presentation of all of the people’s information (the “Tweets”) was mildly amusing to read, as oftentimes people would be griping about or doing the same kind of things in their day, with no prior coordination between them. From a purely observational stance on behavior this was an interesting aspect to witness. Not generally being on, of course, I missed some discussions that I would have enjoyed partaking in and could even have offered up some information to add. For instance, leading up to when Cloverfield hit theaters, I noticed there was buzz about the movie, which was even later presented by Seth in class."
"Someone also pointed out that people were only known by their usernames, and less their actual names. What this might say about extensive use of tools like Twitter is that the interaction is very absorbed (i.e. one needs to almost be constantly logged in to get all the updates) and that the time invested by the user crafts for them a very gravitational presence in the tool, but that they hardly distinguish themselves otherwise. The danger in these types of things becoming more prevalent is that information keeps hitting civilians at a mile-a-minute pace and extracting oneself from the efficiency and comfort of that system into the real world is an increasingly difficult thing to do."
"There are both positives and negatives to Twitter, but it’s safe to say that the blurb-type, gossipy nature of it will prevent it from ever becoming something too unwieldy. The short messages even resemble hyperfast versions of the disjointed telegraphs we discussed at the beginning of class. Now that’s nice bookending."