I’d easily be able to describe myself as being a bit of an obsessive fiend. By that I mean, I can get hooked onto anything with minimal effort. I’ve been completely owned by stupid games on my iPhone, ones where you have to go collect your coins or blood or produce at a certain time otherwise other players would steal it from you. I was completely serious about all of that. I was addicted to Sims 1, then Sims 2, and it took me a while to submit myself to Sims 3 but once I did I couldn’t escape. GTA San Andreas and Tomb Raider: Legend controlled me until my PS2 died. If it hadn’t died I can only assume I wouldn’t have been able to complete year 12.
It took me a year of
watching my friends have Facebook before I signed up, simply because I was
trying to prevent the storm of addiction, and I knew I’d be a complete sucker
for it. And I was right. And I still am a sucker for Facebook.Twitter has never appealed to me. I didn’t have a MySpace so if Twitter is somewhat similar than it still means nothing to me, I have no clue. For one of my University subjects I had to make a Twitter account because the teacher would tweet words that we’d have to put into our blog. Needless to say that due to my inability to use Twitter, I failed that stupid subject.
What is Twitter used for? Why do people feel the need to tweet to the internet world whatever they’re doing at that moment in time? When people make pointless statuses on Facebook, at least it’s restricted to whoever is their ‘friend’ on Facebook, and who hasn’t blocked their posts from their newsfeeds yet.
My basic understanding of
Twitter is that people send tweets out into the ‘twitterverse’, some are
directed at other twitterers and others not. And people can respond to the
tweets, and can re-tweet the tweets. This is straight over my head.
I had a quick look at
Twitter and at some celebrities' tweets, and was almost knocked sideways by how
mundane these tweets are. So why are millions of people following celebrities
on Twitter, such as Ashton Kutcher, Rihanna and Kim Kardashian? What does that
say about society today where there are millions of people hanging on to the
edge of their seat, waiting for a tweet on what Ashton had for breakfast this
morning. Why do people care?
It’s impossible to watch
reality TV shows or news programs now without having texts appear at the bottom
of the screen, asking you to tweet your hugely important opinion on what’s occurring.
This whole revolution
saddens me. What happened to when people could do their own thing, and be proud
of it? How have we fallen so far that the constant need of approval by complete
strangers and/or D-List ‘Celebrities’ is
more important to us than our own personal happiness or privacy?
I’ll just be here,
sitting and waiting, for someone to realise that this isn't okay.
