We live like this?
I used to tell my friends the story about how I spent my weekends in secondary school. Good old days with exchanging stories with good friends. However, sharing is not something physical anymore, it has become something virtual. Everyone now interact and share their feelings with people through Internet. Twitter, the little blue bird has bring people into the world of sharing our own life by 140 words.
Instead of keeping our daily routine as own privacy, people now share their daily life to the public. Not only things that important but also things that do not impact much to the public. For example, 'I ate an apple this morning!' Is this something important for people to know? I don't think so. However, someone might reply 'An apple a day, keep the doctor away!' or 'Ohhhh! I ate orange this morning!' This kind of information is more on our life than serious information like world news. Those information are not information that is a must to know but people will like and want to know about these information to be in the norm of the society.
Of course, there are a bunch of people have used Twitter as a media to do informing. Twitter is a convenient media for informing the whole world about what is happening in the world. For instance, there's a car crash in somewhere and it causes massive jam. If someone have posted this in Twitter and people will aware about this. People can avoid the massive jam and know about new news at the same time. For your information, there is a China version of Twitter called WeiBo (www.weibo.com). There is one case in China, train crashed and a lot of them has stucked in the train. People that have stucked in the train has asked for help through twitter-look-a-like: WeiBo to save children and old folks in the train. People retweet it and people have helped out to called the police and firemen.
"Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask." This statement from Steven Johnson have proven through with the China train crashed case. People can know what happen and can take action immediately without asking where, who and what. Besides, as I have mentioned earlier, people now will update their personal things on Twitter. With Twitter, we can know what is people around us doing without asking them but only "Follow" and "Refresh" the page. Twitter has changed the way people getting information and also the way people interact. Compare to old days, people used to interact face-to-face in order to know their recent activities, but now, people interact through Twitter and only by words without speak out verbally.
Twitter is a trend. It brings people together. People discuss the information in the Twitter together, it has become the open conversation. Those information in Twitter not only let people interact in Internet, but also face-to-face conversation. Information in Twitter might be the common topic of discussing face-to-face in the future as people now are starting to have in-depth discussion on the topic in Twitter. In the future, a topic of a conversation will not from us but from Twitter.
In the coming years, those major channel of information will be influenced by Twitter. Why? Here are some points.
News and opinion
There are different news are available in Twitter. People can post up the link or pictures of an event or a news and people who followed them will retweeting and spread the news to others. In the future, Twitter might be the Internet site that provide updated news in a short period of time. With sharing and retweeting, people can gain different opinion and think more critically through the comments.
Searching
People can search topic easily with search bar, friends' status or with Twitter's feature "hashtag". With hashtag, people can search topic they want by keywords and they can even create their own keywords by hashtag as well.
Advertising
Online advertising is everywhere! There are some organization like Airasia is on Twitter as well. They promote their newest promotion and announce newest flights to the audiences. Through Twitter, advertising can be done easily because Twitter spread very fast and the advertising message will be straight forward as there are word limit. It will be very effective in targeting people because people disclose their daily life in Twitter and advertisers can understand audiences easily by reading their Tweets. This shows that Twitter does not only change people life but also changing the way organization attract people.
When I was young, my parents told me I should not use the Internet unless I need it for educational purpose. try to compare old days and now, people used Internet to get information for working purpose, searching scholar documents and more. Now, people mostly used it for socializing purpose. We play online games, adding strangers in social networking site, telling public what we have done this morning and more. People now does not concern what is the newest Journal article from this researcher but worrying which picture they should use to put in on Twitter so they can get more followers.
In my opinion, Twitter has changed people's perception towards own privacy. People now reveal their own private life on Twitter and ask for comments. They post up the pictures of their foods, pictures of new dresses, or even updating status saying that 'Who is tired please retweet!!' These are something not necessary but almost everyone is doing it, it has become a trend. To adapt audiences' life, organizations have to change the way they advertise to attract new audiences.
Of course, there are a bunch of people have used Twitter as a media to do informing. Twitter is a convenient media for informing the whole world about what is happening in the world. For instance, there's a car crash in somewhere and it causes massive jam. If someone have posted this in Twitter and people will aware about this. People can avoid the massive jam and know about new news at the same time. For your information, there is a China version of Twitter called WeiBo (www.weibo.com). There is one case in China, train crashed and a lot of them has stucked in the train. People that have stucked in the train has asked for help through twitter-look-a-like: WeiBo to save children and old folks in the train. People retweet it and people have helped out to called the police and firemen.
"Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask." This statement from Steven Johnson have proven through with the China train crashed case. People can know what happen and can take action immediately without asking where, who and what. Besides, as I have mentioned earlier, people now will update their personal things on Twitter. With Twitter, we can know what is people around us doing without asking them but only "Follow" and "Refresh" the page. Twitter has changed the way people getting information and also the way people interact. Compare to old days, people used to interact face-to-face in order to know their recent activities, but now, people interact through Twitter and only by words without speak out verbally.
Twitter is a trend. It brings people together. People discuss the information in the Twitter together, it has become the open conversation. Those information in Twitter not only let people interact in Internet, but also face-to-face conversation. Information in Twitter might be the common topic of discussing face-to-face in the future as people now are starting to have in-depth discussion on the topic in Twitter. In the future, a topic of a conversation will not from us but from Twitter.
In the coming years, those major channel of information will be influenced by Twitter. Why? Here are some points.
News and opinion
There are different news are available in Twitter. People can post up the link or pictures of an event or a news and people who followed them will retweeting and spread the news to others. In the future, Twitter might be the Internet site that provide updated news in a short period of time. With sharing and retweeting, people can gain different opinion and think more critically through the comments.
Searching
People can search topic easily with search bar, friends' status or with Twitter's feature "hashtag". With hashtag, people can search topic they want by keywords and they can even create their own keywords by hashtag as well.
Advertising
Online advertising is everywhere! There are some organization like Airasia is on Twitter as well. They promote their newest promotion and announce newest flights to the audiences. Through Twitter, advertising can be done easily because Twitter spread very fast and the advertising message will be straight forward as there are word limit. It will be very effective in targeting people because people disclose their daily life in Twitter and advertisers can understand audiences easily by reading their Tweets. This shows that Twitter does not only change people life but also changing the way organization attract people.
When I was young, my parents told me I should not use the Internet unless I need it for educational purpose. try to compare old days and now, people used Internet to get information for working purpose, searching scholar documents and more. Now, people mostly used it for socializing purpose. We play online games, adding strangers in social networking site, telling public what we have done this morning and more. People now does not concern what is the newest Journal article from this researcher but worrying which picture they should use to put in on Twitter so they can get more followers.
In my opinion, Twitter has changed people's perception towards own privacy. People now reveal their own private life on Twitter and ask for comments. They post up the pictures of their foods, pictures of new dresses, or even updating status saying that 'Who is tired please retweet!!' These are something not necessary but almost everyone is doing it, it has become a trend. To adapt audiences' life, organizations have to change the way they advertise to attract new audiences.
