Twitter

I love the pointlessness of Twitter. It pleases my ADD ridden mind and my ever changing emotions. I like fads, and when this one is over my Twitter will lay abandoned to haunt me when I wish to get a job.

"But really, what is the point of twitter?" my friends ask. I don't many people know, and I, even as a user, do not really know. According to Twitter's website (link) twitter is:

...a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages... These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.

There you go, it's a service that lets you keep in touch with people around you, in a timely fashion.

Well, I've heard it described that Twitter is merely a stalker engine, servings only stalkers who wish to find out what their "friends" are doing (even I, jokingly, have described it as such). I've used it this way (mostly to know what my father is doing, ;) ). But I've also used it to tell the world the pointless things I am doing. But I even use it when I want input, when I plan something, and to talk tech things with those around me.

Now, my friend (linked above) say that politicians using twitter no their job is immature. And I agree completely. I think that politicians can (and it may be beneficial for them to) have twitter accounts. But if they are acting as high school students texting "in class" and acting immature with useless texting that could affect their judgment on important matters, they should not. However, It may help politicians with gaining supporters, if they seem modern and actively update their twitter to communicate their feelings on some topics. And I like to know what is going on directly from the political field.

So even though my friend sees the pointlessness of Twitter and the misuse by politician as another fad and I see it as a useful tool, I completely agree. Twitter is pointless, a fad and definitely a passing trend. But I shall continue to use it to stalk my friends (and my father), to announce to the uncaring Internet that I am, in fact pooping, to look at pictures that photographers post, to check when my favorite web comic is updated, to check on updates on a series of TV shows that I once enjoyed, and to use it as it is supposed to be used, to communicate with my friends.