It seems like everywhere I go, every channel I watch, on the radio , etc etc, I hear about Twitter. Twitter this, Tweeting that. I heard about Ashton Kutchers million tweet thing. Oprah uses it. Regis and kelly talk about it everday as I work out. I was really beginning to feel behind the times. Mind you, no one I actually know has said a word about it. It is all through the media that I have been hearing about this. But if the anchors on E! news use it, it's got to be cool, right?
Well I went and signed up for the infamous twitter. It took a while because every user has to come up with a unique screen name that no one else has without using any non alphabet symbols. Let me tell you that if you are planning on signing up, give yourself some time. The first 150 user names i came up with had been taken. I finally stumbled upon hdlala. Dont ask. Upon signing up, I started to mess around with it, and I realized something disheartening. I have no idea what the heck people would use this for. To my understanding, basically people can post sentences up to 160 characters to be printed on a main wall that all your "followers" can instantly read. Basically a limited version of posting a bulletin with their myspace account. Well updates can also be sent to your phone. Isn't that the same as texting? I guess it would be cool if people were doing important things with it. When you sign up, Twitter picks some people for you to follow. The posts listed on my page were as inspiring as "I am going to lunch. I love pizza" from some guy in Brooklyn to "Damn the man, Fight hypocrisy" from a girl in Portland. Maybe there is some hidden message in all that, but to me it seems like drivel. Do I really want to alert all of my friends everytime I go to lunch? What happened to an air of mystery. I guess it's just one more way for people to communicate without actually talking. Kind of like this blog.
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