Twitter.
My oh my, how social networking has changed. First, there was MySpace. I had a MySpace for about two weeks, got sick of it, and moved on. Lately it seems like a lot of other people have done the same thing, although evidently there still are some people who have a MySpace. Go figure. Now, most everyone has a Facebook. You can update your status, post pictures, poke your friends, write on walls, and tout the massive collection of friends that you have. It's oh so addicting, yet it is everything essential to existence.
Or is it?
Apparently not, since someone thought there was a need for Twitter. And apparently there was a need, according to the amount of people who tweet almost daily. Ellen DeGeneres does. Oprah has a following on Twitter. Ryan Seacrest updates his profile daily. I think even Barack Obama tweets.
At first, I wasn't sure of the appeal to Twitter, since I thought the entire premise was typing constant status updates of 140 characters or less. Now, though, I am still unsure of the appeal, since the entire premise actually is typing constant status updates of 140 characters or less.
What if I'm having a complicated day and I need 141 characters? Obviously, the internet and social networking sites are exactly what I need to get all the complicated tangles of my life straightened out. In those situations, however, I can rely on zero success from theraputic tweeting.
Oh Twitter. I got a Twitter today. I still think it's dumb. I will most likely think it's dumb for the rest of my life. I only got one so people couldn't attack my claim that it's dumb with the cliched "just give it a chance" argument. I already have two followers. Oh how popular I am. And I'm sure, since everyone cares about my impressive updates, more followers will come my way.
If there is anything of any value that Twitter has to offer, I'm sure I'll discover it by the end of the summer. If I can find at least ten things that appear to have some point of maintaining a Twitter, then I might keep tweeting just for that. If I can't, Twitter is just as dumb as I think it is and it's ridiculous that it even exists.
I'm probably right, though. I usually am.
