Twitter Response

I must admit, when I first heard that we were going to have to register for a Twitter account as part of a class assignment, I wasn’t exactly enthused. The idea of posting frequent updates about my life to some public forum seemed rather strange. I mean, who cares about what I am doing at 12:36 PM on a Saturday afternoon? After using Twitter for a while, my opinions began to change. My classmates weren’t only posting life updates, but also sharing views and beliefs about different issues. Not only this, people were sharing links and other information with each other. It was very cool to see so much activity and discussion among my peers. With that said, do I think that Twitter is going to revolutionize the way we share information? I would lean towards no. While my experience with Twitter was positive, and I definitely saw some advantages of using it, I tend to think that Twitter may be more of fad. Twitter was generally easy to use and figure out, but I feel that soon another social networking site will come around to take the place of Twitter. It seems like this has happened among the social networking sites to an extent, with Facebook becoming more popular that Myspace and now Twitter being more popular than Facebook. However, I do feel that I will keep using Twitter at least for the time being. I have already been reconnected with some friends outside of class that live in different regions of the country. It’s nice to be “connected” with them and my UW-Bothell cohort.