Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Virtual Life


Twitter started out as a system of communicating ideas to be viewed easily by your peers.  In this day in age websites such as this go viral in a matter of months.  With teenagers feeling that urging need to post everything that pops into their insignificant heads to internet; a website such as this was destined to flourish.   The initial sign-up is rather simple and the navigation of the pages is so easy an elementary student could figure this out, which isn’t much since every child that was born in the twenty-first century already has an amazing predisposition for using computers as soon as they come out of the womb.  To start following other “writers” or in this sense “posters” tweets, it just takes one search of their domain name to begin.  Some of the most famous tweeters are movie stars, political figures, athletes, and some are just internet sensations.  This website has the capability for anyone who owns a computer and has access to the internet to post their ideas.  Much like the internet phenomenon, Facebook, you develop a following or crowd that views your posts on a daily basis.  Could this not simply be just a blog? Fortunately not because the tweets only allow for a minimal number of characters.  Centuries ago the idea of sharing ideas through mass media seemed impossible, hell the idea that the earth was round seemed impossible up until a few hundred years ago.  Through websites such as twitter, with its easily navigable pages, quick search of friends, and having friends you’ve never met, we have become a technologically dependent country.  The thought of sending a letter to a friend just because you care is history.  This is just the beginning of the depletion of material ideas; we have advanced into the virtual realm of communication.

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