What is Twitter? If you click on this link: http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/ you will be able to learn everything you ever wanted to know about Twitter and more. From my experience, Twitter is a place where you can post or "Tweet" about anything you happen to be doing at that time. It is also an easy way to keep up to date on what the people you follow are doing. If I were to keep my new Twitter account, it would be so that I could say I'm following Taylor Swift and a def jam poet that I enjoy watching named Rafael Casal. I think that part of Twitter is cool, that you can be connected to a celebrity that you are a fan of.
Personally, I dislike Twitter for various reasons. The first thing I dislike on Twitter is the fact that anyone can follow your profile and you have no veto power. This means that creepy people that you don't know are getting information about who you are, what you do and where you are any time you make a post. Some people say that they "Facebook stalk" their friends, but Twitter takes stalking someone to a whole new level. Another thing that I dislike about Twitter is that it is just a collection of statuses. I don't understand why I would "Tweet" about what I'm doing. Honestly, who cares about what is going on in my life? I just don't get it. In addition, since people are tweeting so quickly, it is hard to keep up with what is happening. Even if you did want to stay up to date on what one or maybe two people are doing, you have to search through everyone else's posts to get there. Another thing I don't like about Twitter is that anyone can tag you in their Tweet, and if you don't happen to be on Twitter in that time frame, you don't know what they said about you. That makes me feel very vulnerable that someone has that much power to bring me into their post and I may never know that the post even happened. You might not think this is a big deal but I feel that I am responsible for any and all information posted about myself and if it is something unfavorable toward my name I want the chance to remove myself from being connected to it, I can't do that if I don't know that the post even took place.
If you wanted to check out my Twitter page, here it is http://twitter.com/rmzhorne.
