Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Vocabulary (blogpost 9.0)

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Millions of interlocutors across the world have joined Twitter, a social media website that allows a carte blanche of free thought and opinion sharing for anyone with internet access. Some people believe that the internet is a stygian place that condones or even encourages contemptuous behavior. This sophistry argues that social media is a place rife with procrustean individuals with no regard for others or their own responsibility and has caused quite a donnybrook from a generation so acclimated to these tools. The internet offers a virtual, cosmopolitan lifestyle because of easy access to global information and experience. Today, there is only a vestige of people strewn across the earth who haven't been affected in some way by social media.

Twitter and its other rivalry networks are attempting a metamorphosis in how users are evaluated in terms of popularity ratings. These social network sites are concerned with how their users are able to view their popularity. On twitter, users can "retweet" (internet nomenclature for post again or share) what someone else posted, creating a sort of incantation of one person's thought. Twitter is beginning to consider that retweeting may more accurately portray a user's success, because their tweet has been sent to more than just their own followers.

I am nonchalant about the way twitter tracks it's users. As long as an internet brigand or hacker does not steal my account from me, I'll be all set.

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