My twin brother has been using Twitter for a while before I recently jumped on the bandwagon. Last year, we got into a chat about the future of Twitter, and my feeling was similar to a juicy apple going bad after the first bite. We have all tasted the shallow Facebook status updates, but why do I need just a bite when I can have the full apple? It really is fun. I’m addicted to status updates. I want to know what other people are up to. I’m curious in nature. It pleases my inner Niel. However, it also shows the general population is sinking into Idiocracy. Really ridiculous bragging and bad spelling. I digress, that is another topic on its own.
Twitter, was at first glance for me a Facebook status update outsourced to a farm. It could happily breed with other status updates and not be disturbed by group invites and thrown sheep. I was not convinced. Some groups were awesome, and sometimes I’d impossibly throw something many times my size. Frail afternoon entertainment. Why would I need just status updates when I have it already?
However, when I saw my brother using it, I realized the potential of this new way of communicating. I slowly started checking it again and then within the past two weeks I’ve been on the hunt for more followers and more interesting micro-bloggers. The info is writhing between users like a crocodile in a sewer. I got hooked. Now along with Facebook , I also religiously check my Twitter for new bite-size fruits of information. I don’t mind if some people are merely transposing Facebook updates, “Mary had a juicy apple for lunch”, but along with that comes the news, the great articles – the social media.
Twitter can actually help me. Twitter is instrumental, whereas Facebook is merely social.
