Tweet Me!

What can I say? This growing world of connectivity in every aspect of its word has created a vast increase in the leak of information available to us as an individual. We cannot begin to understand how much data is uploaded everyday into the web in order for us as users to be able to read, share and review the different qualitative and quantitive values that we have been able to get our hooks on, being able to learn and develop ourselves intellectually and physically as you can get everything you want to know on it.

Twitter is one of the forms of information sharing that many web users and companies have learned to use in order to send out their information quickly and received short and quickly in a one in all method of different sources. With Twitter it has given people the opportunity to bulk up information from a bunch of different social figures, newspapers, intellectuals, gamers, athletes, chefs etc. there is a vast amount of information that has been given by the network, where you just have to be following the group in order to be informed by them. It is a package of a vast variety of different websites and groups that you can just follow and you will receive all the information you would want in one online software.

All these microblogging and social networking websites are all based on a double-edged sword basis. These companies and websites have created the amazing opportunity of unbiased and immense amount of different information for everything you want. You can become and expert on almost anything and be constantly updated everyday about everything that happens around the world. You get various amounts of information of different bias opinions for different types of news in order to get yourself the most unbiased conclusion for yourself, it enables the elimination of censorship on almost all types of information. There will always be some sort of filtering, but in short, the amount ultimately given to you is drastically reduced, given that you are researching from various sources; twitter makes it much easier as well to follow these kinds of information.

The downside of these inadequate factors is the abusive privacy invasion in our new world era. There is so much hacking produced through the web, that if your good enough, you can access almost anyone on the web. Also social behavior between people through social networking and online communication has hindered a vast majority of the population of how to communicate themselves properly in real life. The quantity of people hiding behind their screens not even communicating face to face is unimaginable and it scares me to know that so many of us do not even have the courage anymore to talk to people in that manner.

Twitter just like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube or any other social network, has helped us communicate globally our ideas and made it easier for people to share information, and expose themselves to the rest of world. The point where you have to be able to draw the line is the abuse of these networks and control yourself to use the web and these contents of information to your benefit and not give up your life on the web with them or abusing other users through the web. Consideration and moderation has to be the core ideologies, do not overdo the monsters.


Christopher Tombrink