Twitter and why it is not stupid
So, here is the thing...communications is about sharing. We humans are “wired” to communicate. I read once (albeit about 10 years ago) that about 67% of what people talk about on mobile handsets is what they call “gossip.”
Call it what you want; gossip is communicating and everyone participates in it.
Hear me out. Take “THE media”, the big, scary media, they communicate to us inane things that we really don’t care about but yet they do such a good job of imbedding us with it via the many outlets that even people like me, totally devoid of any interest whatsoever in Tiger Woods and much less Golf, have me talking and writing about it.
So there, gossip IS communications.
So, back to Twitter; Twitter is about a new way to communicate and document. It is a new way to share with the World and a new tool for us to use judiciously. At first I was not seeing the value of Twitter but then I immersed myself in its potential and discovered that it was up to us – the human race - to use it in away that can add value to the world of ideas and maybe, just maybe, people will benefit from it, laugh at it, whatever.
With that in mind I realized that it is a wonderful tool for capturing the prevailing zeitgeist AND documenting it for future use for whomever and whatever. Secondly - being an amateur futurist- I thought, what a wonderful tool to capture insights and shared them with my community and whomever finds value on what I have to say as I go about reflecting on this thing called life and awareness. The beauty of Twitter is that you can “follow” only those that inspire you and that motivate you, etc…It is akin to the radio dial of old- you don’t like it: turn it off or go to the next station.
Twitter is not stupid: Twitter is just another communications tool much as talking, gesturing, body language, email, flirting, texting, reading, sharing, etc…IS.
Call it what you want; gossip is communicating and everyone participates in it.
Hear me out. Take “THE media”, the big, scary media, they communicate to us inane things that we really don’t care about but yet they do such a good job of imbedding us with it via the many outlets that even people like me, totally devoid of any interest whatsoever in Tiger Woods and much less Golf, have me talking and writing about it.
So there, gossip IS communications.
So, back to Twitter; Twitter is about a new way to communicate and document. It is a new way to share with the World and a new tool for us to use judiciously. At first I was not seeing the value of Twitter but then I immersed myself in its potential and discovered that it was up to us – the human race - to use it in away that can add value to the world of ideas and maybe, just maybe, people will benefit from it, laugh at it, whatever.
With that in mind I realized that it is a wonderful tool for capturing the prevailing zeitgeist AND documenting it for future use for whomever and whatever. Secondly - being an amateur futurist- I thought, what a wonderful tool to capture insights and shared them with my community and whomever finds value on what I have to say as I go about reflecting on this thing called life and awareness. The beauty of Twitter is that you can “follow” only those that inspire you and that motivate you, etc…It is akin to the radio dial of old- you don’t like it: turn it off or go to the next station.
Twitter is not stupid: Twitter is just another communications tool much as talking, gesturing, body language, email, flirting, texting, reading, sharing, etc…IS.
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