Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Blogs, Twitter, etc.

I like blogging and reading others’ blogs, even if I don’t comment very often.

A blog can help a strategy by getting your message out if you have something to say and they create a personality profile by offering personal opinions. Blogs generate meaningful comments and at times significant information. Blogs can become an important part of life, as if forming annals for it.

But wanna post something quicky, with no thought behind it, just to say hi and throw a word or two into the open? You have a way. You’ve got Twitter.

Twitter’s tweeting doesn’t stay forever, because tweeting is fleeting. I have nothing against this tweeting, since I, too, smile or wave at people I don’t know, when I'm on the road or in places I am not much familiar with. My smiling and waving is fleeting, too, and sometimes, these fleeting interactions add up to happy split-seconds of living.

What startles me about Twitter, or rather some users of it, is how they minimalize or depreciate the important moments in life. I am all for Twitter expanding its audience. After all, it makes for friendly exchange like the small talk between people in a supermarket. What annoys me, though, is when people holding serious offices twitter away during serious business; for example, elected officials during an inauguration.

If our elected officials could keep blogs, I am sure they’d all get a lot more attention, and those of them that do enjoy the attention. Yet, when they twitter away during serious business, it makes me wonder why we elected those officials in the first place.