Oh and there will be no links or whatsoever. Any reference made will just be stated and not linked, okay? (add on: okay, I lied. I decided to add the links afterall.)
Unique-Frequency made an addition to list of mistakes bloggers make while using Twitter (Original List: "Eight Mistakes Bloggers Make While Using Twitter" ). The mistake he thinks that most people are making is, "#9: Twitter gives you great mIRC-like benefits, but it doesn’t mean you should use it like IRC."
Which I find is not right/correct. Why? Okay, let me try to get my POV down as accurately as possible because I am prone to having mental jam and thereafter, losing my train of thoughts.
In Twitter, people choose to follow you. No forcing. What does that means?
It means that these followers are interested in what you have to say, what you are saying, what you are doing or what you are discussing with your friends. It means that even if you are just having a cup of coffee, they WANT to know. Or if you are just debating with your friends, whether to it will rain tomorrow, they WANT to know.
That's the whole purpose of Twitter, no? To keep your friends in the loop of your life. Even if you are not actively talking to them. By reading what you are saying to your other friends, they are updated of what's happening, be entertained and can even drop in a Tweet or two of their own.
Besides, @reply do not appear on the followers homepage, no? *checks* Nope. It does not show on mine. And if they find that there is no more "value" in following you or that you are just plain flooding/abusing Twitter, they have the option of removing you from their list.
In other words, personally, I think it is okay for us to use Twitter like mIRC.
And there is a difference between mIRC and Twitter.
In mIRC, the moment you join a chatroom, you get bombarded with messages. Even if the (okay, I lost this train of thought. Have to improvise.) message is targeted at you, there's a high probability that you will miss it because the message stream do not stop! And you do not want to DM the person, because you still want to take part in the general discussion and still want people to hear what you have to say.
In Twitter, it's like a more controlled version of mIRC. The "chatroom" is the profile page of a person. You can jump in and join in the conversation if you like. If not, you can just stay at your own homepage, discuss the whatever topic/things and wait for the person to @reply to you. In this way, people still get to see what you have to say but you don't get disturbed by all those other messages.
Conclusion: If you think you should stop using Twitter to communicate with your friends, or that every thing you Tweet has to be of value to your followers, then I think you are losing the whole point and purpose of Twitter.
Sometimes, I feel that people are abusing social media/social networks. They keep emphasizing the need for quality things to be blogged/tweeted/published. Things that will be of value to your readers. If that's the case, I think they are trying to be too hard and abusing the social effect of social media.
Of course, I agree that if a blog is made up of purely "meepok" post, then it is kind of pointless. But if you go to the extreme and only blog about things that are of value or that are all serious, it is kind of dull and pointless too, don't you think? You are basically taking the "human" effect out of blogs/tweets/whatnot.
Okay, that's it from me. What do you think?
Off for lunch! My mum made 雷茶 (traditional Hakka dish)!! *yums* Here's how the dish looks like (picture kop from sampat king):
1 comment:
Haha well the key for me is balance. I'm okay with reading other people's frivolous posts. But once in awhile it gets overwhelming and I go "why in the world does this person think this tweet is of value to me?". And then I un-follow the person.
I think a lot about social media is adding value to other people. The minute that changes to being an annoyance, that's it!
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