Apparently I’m behind the times because I have yet to comprehend the fascination people have with Twitter. I figure social networks like Facebook are stalkerish enough with status updates and whatnot (most of which are less than enlightening). I just can’t imagine reading one liners of what others are doing all day, though I’m sure there are a handful of more interesting, imaginative users who make it more worthwhile than your average anybody. Still, Twitter is all I hear about all over the net and I’m starting to feel a tad bit out of the loop for shunning it. Nonetheless, articles such as this provide even more reasons to sit back a moment and compose a look of genuine confusion. Oddly enough, there are some British schools actually considering replacing core curriculum courses such as History in favor of classes to teach kids about Twitter and Wikipedia instead? Oh man. I may use the latter quite a bit but I’m still not going to replace published History textbooks by experts with published web articles by who-knows. And quite frankly, I would think that children typically don’t even need to become acclimated with use of online tools… they’ve grown up with it, haven’t they?
I also came across this article at Copyblogger which claims that due to the ultra limited length of Twitter entries (a mere 140 characters), users will inadvertently improve their writing skills. I’m still not convinced. I don’t really think that text messaging has improved writing skills for many. On the contrary really, since everyone uses abbreviations and other shortcuts that are not exactly polished writing (idk my bff jill?)… and don’t a lot of people text their Tweets anyhow? Maybe I’m just resisting this fad because I love words too much to be that concise! I may eat these words later though if I one day jump on the Twitter bandwagon. Until then…
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