Comments for LeylandJacob http://leylandjacob.com Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:00:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Twitter by Lauryn http://leylandjacob.com/2009/10/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Lauryn Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:00:23 +0000 http://leylandjacob.com/?p=238#comment-8 I think that Twitter definitely has amazing potential in the arena you described here [30 more followers in one day is pretty impressive]. However, as far as the personal sector of Twitter goes, I have become increasingly wary. It just seems like life is one big status update. Reporting to all of your followers and friends about 'what you are doing' becomes more important than the event that you are actually doing. How many times do people tweet images of something in the middle of dinner, or update their facebook status when out with a friend? I have definitely been guilty of both of these things, but it has only made me more aware of the slow degeneration of human to human interaction as sacred and precious time. It seems as if there are no boundaries anymore. Because we now feel the need to share all of the little events that happen in our day to day lives, an 'inside joke' is now shared with a sea followers. An embarrassing moment or story is uploaded as a 'Twitpic.' Certain situations like these should remain private and un-invaded if they are meant to retain any sort of special meaning. I don't know, this turned into a longer comment than I intended. Sometimes I just kind of wish we could go back to a pre-Twitter era when something like a vacation was time off to spend with those you love [not the perfect opportunity for an interesting tweet]. :] I think that Twitter definitely has amazing potential in the arena you described here [30 more followers in one day is pretty impressive]. However, as far as the personal sector of Twitter goes, I have become increasingly wary. It just seems like life is one big status update. Reporting to all of your followers and friends about ‘what you are doing’ becomes more important than the event that you are actually doing. How many times do people tweet images of something in the middle of dinner, or update their facebook status when out with a friend? I have definitely been guilty of both of these things, but it has only made me more aware of the slow degeneration of human to human interaction as sacred and precious time. It seems as if there are no boundaries anymore. Because we now feel the need to share all of the little events that happen in our day to day lives, an ‘inside joke’ is now shared with a sea followers. An embarrassing moment or story is uploaded as a ‘Twitpic.’ Certain situations like these should remain private and un-invaded if they are meant to retain any sort of special meaning. I don’t know, this turned into a longer comment than I intended. Sometimes I just kind of wish we could go back to a pre-Twitter era when something like a vacation was time off to spend with those you love [not the perfect opportunity for an interesting tweet].

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