Are You Too Cool For Twitter?

Recently, I have gotten into Twitter, big time. I love it! I think the main reason I love it, is due to my lack of interest in Facebook, which I like to think is my maturity level shining through, but also because I understand how to use Twitter now.

Some of you may be laughing thinking, how to use Twitter? Well you just create a password and then write mini blog posts of 140 characters. Sounds easy, right?

Not so much.

The actual space of Twitter can be intimidating and quite daunting. The thought of your minuscule post being swallowed up in cyber space for no one to ever see or read is quite frightening. It may even discourage you from publishing all together. But once you understand Twitter, it is actually quite amazing.

I started using Twitter for a few things. One, I use it as a tool to keep in touch with some friends. The ones who use it, use it often, which makes it easier to keep up with their day to day lives.

Two, I follow people in the field of journalism. This makes it easier to follow the news as well as new ideas that I will need to understand and know when entering the journalismfield.

And finally, I use it as a tool for a guilty pleasure. I follow celebrities, cooking sites, travel sites, and more.

But how do you do that? Isn't everything jumbled together?

LISTS my friend! Try it. It honestly makes everything so much easier.

Okay, who cares?

The point I'm trying to make is that Twitter isn't just a self obsessed website for people to add to their ego. It is a tool that can help you on so many levels!

What really erks me, is when I hear people put down Twitter, right away.

I was sitting in class the other day, when my teacher asked if anyone was currently "microblogging?" Myself and one other student raised their hand.

It was a lecture center of 600 students.

When the teacher explained what microblogging was, a girl in front of me looked at her friend and said, "I don't use Twitter and I never will."

With ideas like that, she might as well toss her cell phone and her laptop out the window of a fast moving car.

The second thing that turned me on to blogging about this was this Facebook conversation between two college aged girls:

Girl #1: can we get twitter? i am rather intrigued and would like to know what you are doing all day since facebook doessn't give me the best stalking abilities when it comes to ur everyday life. xoxo

Girl #2: i just want to say, you've written on my wall seven times since the last time i wrote on yours...WHY YOU SO OBSESSED WITHMEHHH. =] oh and you wanna tweet me huh? redicccc. i'll neva do dat sheeet.

This conversation proves to be an example of the sad, simple minded college students who are not using Twitter to the full capabilitiy.

My conclusion and solution? Those who do decide to use Twitter will increase their contacts, benefits, and existence in the cyber world. Those who don't, will live on in the dated, Facebook stalking world, where pictures and posts dictate the the lives of the simple.