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.
Hi Pei Jie, I agree that people nowadays usually share their daily life in Twitter. Twitter has become part of the entertainment in our life, meanwhile it could also update us about any breaking news, traffics and et cetera in any moment. It is faster to know the news instead of reading the newspaper.
ReplyDeleteHi, Twitter has become a very common site that most of us need to log in on daily basis.
ReplyDeleteBesides, do you know that which celebrities, politicians and other famous icons are on Twitter too? The answers would be a lot, for example, Ryan Seacrest the popular radio and TV program host and even Barack Obama is on Twitter too. They use Twitter to do simple updates on their works, events, thoughts, and anything. Then, we can know more about them by following their tweets.
Anyone of us could be a good citizen journalist. It is because Twitter has words limit, everything we post in Twitter need to be short but essential. In Twitter, you do not need to write a lengthy article which makes you headache and you can also just post a picture that tells everything. It sounds simple and YES, Twitter is really simple to do citizen journalism.
Hi, Pei Jie
ReplyDeleteMaybe for others, Yes. Twitter change the way of live.
To me, it is only in certain area. I do have personal Twitter account, but I seldom log in.
I still prefer Facebook, because it is more interactive.
However, Twitter is definitely a very good tools to train us to write a statement with point but short.
Hi, peijie, me again.
ReplyDeleteYa, twitter have change people's life, but for me it's doesn't change my life at all, compare to facebook and twitter, i will still prefer to facebook, because facebook have visual and audio, but twitter it allow us to visualize it with a limited words.
I like this sentences.
"People now reveal their own private life on Twitter and ask for comments. "
Yup, people now are less aware of privacy problem, they tend to behave what people doing i must do, this kind of attitude are slightly can see from the young generation today. They tend to show offing what their have now, instead of sharing i will say it more like show offing. why do we need to tell the world how lucky are we now? I rather share with the one i know instead of peoples around the worlds. Unless we are trying to advertised ourselves or gain attention from others.
This just my opinion, no offended =)
Hello there Pei Jie! Nice post! I especially like the case of the China train incident. It goes to show that Twitter is not just a tool of 140 characters! It can be a tool to save lives! Amazing stuff!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I don't have a personal account for Twitter, therefore I don't eat, sleep, Tweet. I never quite understand the need for Twitter b/c from what I see, all that are up on Twitter are just irrelevant and unnecessary junks. Of course, you might enjoy eating an apple, but to you and me and to a hundred others, we don't care! :P
But what I can agree on is that yes, Twitter is becoming a trend. Any updates (relevant or not) is in some way useful. It gives people a sense of information about any particular topic - football, food, business, leisure etc. Twitter is a potential news feed for important breaking news but I feel the society we live in doesn't know how to appreciate this just yet.
For them, it's all about me, me, me. It seems more of a fun tool to play with. I actually think that if the Tweets were on world or national news, I would actually sign up for a Twitter account. It would be really useful then, but what's the point when everything now is just really about themselves. And also what they ate for breakfast.
Thanks Pei Jie! I do agree with your point that I rather share personal stuff with close friends. Let's hope Twitter becomes more informational in a more beneficial way!
Nice explaination!twitter has successfully create a new form of advertising and new way of so-called word of mouth by retweet the advertisement or announcememnt that would create and advertising effect to the whole world.Besides, it also can release news and user can get close to the world anytime by just tracking of the twitter.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice post. I like the train crash example. It is so true that people will on Twitter 24/7 and always click on the refresh button to see what other people is doing and what had happen. They even can get the latest news on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteBesides, you can easily find the information you want by typing the keywords. It also allows you to connect to many people with the same interest. For example, you can find people that are talking about the same issue as you by typing the keywords in the search box. Last time, when I told my friend that I had become fatter and want to slim down and there is a person reply me by teaching me ways to slim down. It is an advertising tweets and it's obvious that he or she found me through the keywords "Fat" that i had mention in my tweets.