I’m Such A Twit
by Ruth Ann Harnisch on 03/13/09 at 8:27 am
Starring now in the Short Attention Span Theater, yours truly.
I confess that I fell into the Twitter trap. It’s just so easy to post in 140-character increments that I temporarily abandoned the more labor-intensive and time-consuming process of posting here. As I wrote to Diana DiMenna (more about her in a later post), “I’ve Fallen, But I’m About To Get Up.” I cannot allow myself to lose the ability to write in paragraphs, to concentrate on complex thoughts.
If a senior citizen such as moi can be seduced by the Twitstream, it’s no wonder young brains are being completely rewired to think in tiny bites of data. If you have no idea what Twitter is, just Google. Hildy Gottlieb did a great job of ”Explaining Twitter to Grandma Rose” http://hildygottlieb.com/2009/03/09/explaining-twitter-to-grandma-rose/ . (Coincidentally, that’s what the grandkids call my mother. But I don’t think even Hildy could explain Twitter to our Grandma Rose.)
Here’s what frightened me back to the longer form: I followed a link on Twitter to a very good explanation of a complex issue. I simply couldn’t concentrate on it. It was toooooo looooong. I felt like…a twit.
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