Twitter confuses me. Like, really confuses me. It's...how does it even work? I mean, I've got a Twitter account, posted a couple of tweets but I don't talk to people in real life on a regular basis...why would I have staccato discussions on the Internet with them mostly consisting of symbols and text speak?
Plus there's this whole weird culture of being able to actually talk to famous people on there. Internet stalking reaches new levels and I am simultaneously in awe and slightly scared. First there's Google searches with IMDB, online pics and celebrity stalker sites, then there's Facebook and Myspace where you can suddenly type in someone's name and find out if they have a profile there, and then Twitter where you can follow their daily mundanities like some kind of reality TV show. Now, I'm not ragging on Twitter - I love Felicia Day's tweets and I'm sure if I were to think of something worthwhile to tell the world about in 140 characters (as opposed to the lengthy ramblings I post here), it would be a highly useful tool, but half of it is incomprehensible anyway.
And following...that also confuses me, I mean, it's awesome to be able to see what your friends and favourite musicians/writers/actors/whatever are posting on a day to day basis but the rapidity of Twitter makes one piece of information obsolete by the next minute.
It makes me wonder if I'd had my heyday of laughing at my parents for not understanding the Internet and am now one of the intellectually out-of-date. But then I suppose if I can get over the shame of Internet fangirling, maybe it could be useful to know when Neil Gaiman is bathing his dog or whatever.
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