The most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.' Johnson, S 2009
The twitter fad hit hard and fast. But many were unimpressed; not understanding how anyone would be interested in 'blogging' only 140 characters. Suddenly useless communication was becoming more interesting everyday and everyone else's business was becoming our business.
Probably the strangest thing about Twitter is its air of 'stalker-ness'. You can follow whoever you want and see exactly what they are up to. We used to all have our little black books full of meticulously collected addresses, emails and phone numbers of our family and favorites. Now we can simply search a name and click 'follow' and suddenly we are in their pockets 'stalking' their daily actions.In saying this it is clear that platforms such as Twitter are beginning to change the very fabric of communication; weaving us together in new and very strange ways. These are changes that are slow and sometimes unnoticeable but a certainly steady. As we communicate and engage with more people, our means of doing are changing along with the times. Twitter, as much as any other site, is helping to launch and enable this new era of communication. Like it or not, we have entered a completely new era in in who we communicate with and how we communicate with them. And central to this is social media sites like Twitter.
Johnson, S 2009,'How Twitter will change the way we live', Time, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1902818-1,00.html
