Comments on: Is Twitter the new method of communication?

By: Buddha

Buddha — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:38:07 +0000

These articles have been coming out since 1999. Yes, people communicate using computers, let’s move on.
But to be honest, why would anyone want to be so updated with the NEWS? How depressed and hopeless do you want to be?

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:59:18 +0000

Also I think it is popular because lame people actually follow Tila Tequila or other degenerates like her.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:56:55 +0000

I agree with Ben 100% I find twitter annoying.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:59:53 +0000

As a 2003 grad of CMU, my college days are not all that far behind me. And yet, those days were pre twitter, pre facebook, and in all reality, even pre texting. And you know what? I remember living on campus my first two years and being really close to most of the other people who lived on the floor. This was largely in part due to actually having to walk down the hall to other peoples’ rooms to ask simple questions. In doing so, I would lo and behold meet other people on the way. It seems this world is a total thing of the past.

Fast forward to a few years later. These years have seen me serve as a RHD, and now, as a PhD student who still has close contact with the student population. No longer do people seem to actually have face to face interaction. No longer do students seem to actually notice the people around them when walking across campus because they are so intently concentrating on their cell phone. No longer can one go to a movie anymore and not expect to hear cell phone text message notifications or be distracted by the lit up phone of nearby people.

People sometimes seem more obsessed with the actual act of texting than they are by the people they are communicating with.

Some of my fondest memories of CMU are the things that made CMU known throughout the Midwest as being one of the friendliest campuses: Say Hey Week, Gentle Friday, etc. I remember having to allot myself 30-45 minutes to do a 15 minute walk across campus because I knew I would run into and converse with several people along the way. It makes me sad to think this way of life may die out in favor of cyber communication.

By: Thomas Marcetti

Thomas Marcetti — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:22:33 +0000

Twitter is a great representation of the entire Internet and online movement. It has great potential, but often fails horribly. There has been a great emphasis on the news gathering ability of Twitter, but what scares me about that is the promotion of a medium that seems to encourage irresponsible reporting. Yes Twitter allowed a glimpse into the election riots and police crackdowns in Iran, but as mentioned in the article it also allowed many people to learn of Michael Jackson’s death – many hours before he actually died. For me, online journalism places too much emphasis on getting it first and making it flashy, and not enough on making sure facts are right and biases are absent.

By: Bob Young

Bob Young — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:29:48 +0000

A professional communicator (and one time CMU J student), I plugged in to Twitter not long after the miraculous East River plane landing because I saw its potential for instantaneous sharing of news/events. It may be the sharpest tool in the drawer for “citizen journalists.” That said, yes, it has its share of morons, but no more so than Faceboo, MySpace or Friendfeed. Even CM Life has a few contributors who should read more and post less. As I have continued to use Twitter I’ve found it to be extremely helpful in getting my arms around the role of social media in news reporting, marketing, and public relations. And as an added plus, my membership package included a t-shirt that reads: “pretentious, narcissistic (expletive) hole.”