Twitter: Communicating Made Ridiculously Easy

Now that the social media are tremendously growing in number, our world is truly shrinking as a global village. Using Facebook and Twitter alone, not only have businesses grew, but the ordinary people have come to meet old friends again. It is so exciting to connect with old friends!

A few moments before writing this post, I was browsing through my FB and Twitter (both personal) accounts. I couldn't help but look at dominant but common posts and tweets. First, there is a heavy rainfall in a Southeast Asian country right now. However, contrary to what many people all over the world do as precautionary measures during extreme weather conditions, SE Asian are very happy that floods are rising above the ground and classes are suspended temporarily. Lol! This is not to illustrate a point about a people's dislike for education. However, it only implies that certain groups have come to see certain climatic conditions as a commonplace.

The second 'bestseller' right at this posting time is Anderson Cooper's 'coming out.' The LA Times revealed that three hours after the CNN anchor posted on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog about his once-in-a-lifetime revelation, it generated 100,000 shares on Facebook. Similarly, there is a pandemonium in Twitter, and probably in other media.


In using these as illustrations, I do not insist on letting my readers get soaked into my post-modernistic sociological perspective that was somehow affected by Michel Foucault's view of how changing power relations affected punishments (the longest run-on I have ever written!). My only point is to show how the world is 'bothered' or 'thrown into confusion' by an issue in which people in certain communities are not even concerned about. All these are brewed within the social media.


I have been using Twitter for personal and 'other' purposes. However, this is the first time that I will attempt to use Twitter for academic purposes. Please follow me.