Tweeting and Twittering

I've been studying Twitter. All in the name of office research of course, and also because I don't 'get it' as to what all the fuss is.

In order to 'get it a bit more I did all the usual stuff you have to do , got people to follow me (the cheque's in the post people - thanks!) and followed other people (many celeb's lives are SO boring - who knew!) and I 'tweeted' now and then.

OK , so I'm not prolific as other people who clearly have no life. Demi Moore seems to do it in her sleep. However, I tweet now and then, and I answer others when they tweet me. I've been trying to figure out how companies monetise their site, and I can see some way o doing it, but potentially very time consuming.

The biggest concern I have, is that the art or writing epistle such as these are being lost. Twitter is full of short words, symbols and some times and unintelligible language that even makes no sense to me!
We are creating a generation of children that require instant satisfaction in 140 characters or less! Better yet - they don't even have to know how to spell! Yay, I really look forward to the day when the essay I red from my daughter is gobbledegook - without any vowels in it.

Need an example ? Here from a 13 yr old : hahaha!!! jst anotha embaressing day at skool!!! god miss ht ws sooooooo angry at me!!!! :P :P :P!!!!! hahaha lol!!!!

Ok, so probably not soooooo bad, but bad enough. This is what they are moving into.
So what's my gripe? Well, we ate turning into 'fast food writers" Macdonalds lives, where we have to get everything now, if not sooner, and we have to do everything quicker. No due care for accuracy, style, construction or asthetic elements, just quick completion and move on. Drive - In reading, fast food lifestyle. No planning, no preparation, no patience.

So, does that explain the kids going in and shooting people in school ? Frustration at not getting what they want when they want it? Instant solution ? Get rid of the people like you do in a game (game play is instant) - problem solved.

Are we creating a generation that cannot communicate properly ? Hell yes!! How do you know how people feel/ will react and know what people truely understand in 140 characters? The problem is that the kids actually don't care. And THAT is the new problem. Apathy and lack of caring. But so what ? It fits into 140 characters....

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